Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 74.7 mn.
GDP: 17.7 bn.
Debt: 5.8 bn.
Overview:

Support for the Kivu rebels by Rwanda and Uganda will militate against a political resolution there. Instability may spread, given the further weakening of the military. Foreign mining companies which made opaque deals with President Joseph Kabila could come under threat.

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  • Vol 53 No 15
  •  19th July 2012

Stifling dissent

The murder of human rights campaigner Floribert Chebeya Bahizire in a Kinshasa police building in June 2010 has come back to haunt President Joseph Kabila and may now threaten his hosting of the 14th Francophonie summit, scheduled for October in Kinshasa...

  • Vol 53 No 14
  •  6th July 2012

Rebels aim for Kivu secession

Rwanda not only supports the M23 rebellion, it may be helping create a new state on its border with Congo

  • Vol 53 No 14
  •  6th July 2012

Obama’s Congo law

Rwanda’s actions in support of the east Congolese rebels, according to the evidence of the United Nations investigation, indicate a breach of a little-known United States law, the 2006 S.2125 (109th) Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and ...

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

Kigali’s hand in the Kivus

A UN report on Rwandan backing for mutineers sparks a diplomatic row in New York as the rebels gain ground

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

US 'protecting' Rwanda

While Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tungamulongo, demanded that Rwanda immediately withdraw its support for militia in eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a press conference on 19 June that he rejected all accusation...

  • Vol 53 No 12
  •  8th June 2012

Who fights for whom

Mutinous factions along the border are exploited by both governments, and Hutu-Tutsi quarrels live on

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Rwanda looms larger in Kivu

The fighting in North Kivu looks set to trigger the eclipse of Bosco Ntaganda and puts pressure on Kigali

  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

A government of few talents

Kabila’s new economic programme sets high targets but sceptics doubt the new cabinet can see it through

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

Wanted – the Terminator

A general has become a rebel again and the patchwork of militias integrated into the army is unravelling and endangering security

  • Vol 53 No 8
  •  13th April 2012

The LRA is down but not out

Small bands of the Lord’s Resistance Army are going into eastern Congo and employing new methods to terrorise local people

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