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Congo-Kinshasa
Population: 70.4 mn.
GDP: 13.0 bn.
Debt: 2.4 bn.
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President Joseph Kabila's disputed election victory will dominate politics as opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi declares himself the 'real' president. Militia violence will plague the east but mining output is due to grow by about 15% over the next four years.

Congo-Kinshasa Country Report

 


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  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Real bullets, phoney coup

Suspicions abound about the government’s account of a small but deadly attack near the President’s home

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

The state of the forces

Congo-Kinshasa’s armed forces comprise about 150,000, including 2,500 in the Navy, 3,000 in the Air Force and 15,000 in the Republican Guard. Military observers believe that most of the naval and air force equipment is unusable or unsuitable. The 20...

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Council of war, but who's the enemy?

The 28 February Conseil supérieur de la défense brought together President Joseph Kabila’s top security team.

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Split the nation

Katanga’s separatists are on the march again. Fifty years ago, they threatened the unity of the new-born Congo state at Independence. On 4 February, at around 3 a.m., a score of armed men in civilian clothes with red-and-white Katangese headbands took ove...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

Kabila moves the goalposts

President Joseph Kabila has virtually ensured his re-election on 27 November by getting Parliament to eliminate the inconvenience of a second electoral round (AC Vol 52 No 1). Government Spokesman Lambert Mendé said this was on the grounds of cost, claimi...

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Kabila again

If, despite some legal hurdles, the elections are held, President Joseph Kabila is likely to win another five years in power

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

The case against Kabila's army

A new report by United Nations experts implicates Congo’s soldiers in murderous criminality, leaving Kinshasa some tough choices

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Will the UN bail out of Congo?

Another month, another United Nations' report on Congo-Kinshasa. Yet do these reports, or indeed the UN in general, help improve conditions in Congo? At around 19,000 strong, the Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation du Congo is the largest ...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

At stake: oil, migrants and gemstones

Behind the obligatory shows of unity between the governments of Angola and Congo-Kinshasa lurk serious disagreements over the frontiers dividing the oil fields straddling the two countries, diamond concessions and treatment of cross-border migrants. Howev...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Kagame’s troops return to Congo

Chaos in the Kivus has given Kigali a pretext to send its soldiers back across the border in pursuit of political and economic objectives

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