Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 66.0 million
GDP: $11100 million
Debt: $125% of GDP
Overview:

With leading oppositionists Jean-Pierre Bemba and Etienne Tshisekedi unlikely to campaign effectively, President Joseph Kabila prepares for an easier run in the 2011 elections. The mandate of the United Nations peacekeepers has been extended until June.

news from Congo-Kinshasa

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  • Vol 51 No 5
  • 05/03/2010

Kabila's new slim-look cabinet

A cabinet reshuffle brings in a few new faces but fails to find the promised seats for the CNDP

  • Vol 51 No 5
  • 05/03/2010

Hush hush money

Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito would like to hush up a report from the Economic and Financial Commission (Ecofin) of the National Assembly, which urges the government to manage Congo’s oil records better. The report should have been debated in a special 15...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

The UN looks for the exit

Internal scandals, management crises and new fighting in the east encourage the peacekeepers to leave while they can

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

Sanctions and the unsanctioned

Africa Confidential has obtained a copy of the 2007 and 2008 confidential lists which the United Nations Panel of Experts submitted to the UN Security Council for designation under the sanctions regime. Amongst those named in 2008 is Tribert Rujugiro,...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

Problems on the home front

Despite President Kagame's rapprochement with both France and Congo-Kinshasa, he faces dissent among some of the former faithful

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

Two generals fail to make peace

The divisions in the Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple infuriate Rwandan President Paul Kagame, as he struggles to balance the interests of rival party factions with business and political ties to senior members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

Who gets the money?

The governing Rwandan Patriotic Front has been quarrelling about money as well as politics. In recent years the RPF has been privatising its assets, notably Tri-Star Holdings, a company set up by Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa to run businesses in eastern ...

  • Vol 51 No 1
  • 08/01/2010

Kabila and a sad jubilee

New clashes erupt, the UN mandate is extended but only for six months, the neighbours cause trouble over oil and national elections are coming

  • Vol 50 No 25
  • 18/12/2009

A storm in the fish ponds

What seemed to start as a local quarrel has turned into a new challenge to the beleaguered Congolese state

  • Vol 50 No 24
  • 04/12/2009

The Experts win support

Resisting pressure to overlook those breaking the arms embargo, the UNSC’s reaction to a hard-hitting investigation is suprisingly robust

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