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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 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Murder again

The death in detention of another critic illustrates the government’s arbitrary power as its reputation declines at home and abroad

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Massaging the message

UN officials believe their edited investigation has persuaded Uganda and Rwanda not to withdraw their peacekeepers

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

Kinshasa in court

President Joseph Kabila's government now has the distinction of facing three international court cases in which foreign companies accuse it of arbitrarily seizing their assets. The biggest plaintiff is Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals, which launch...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

A poll that perplexes

The coming elections are immense, will cost US$715 million and are quite possibly illegal

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Runners and frontrunners

Only three candidates have so far declared that they will stand for president at the election whose first round is due on 27 November 2011. Oscar Kashala Lukumuenda, 56, Chairman of the Union pour la reconstruction du Congo (UREC), put his name forward in...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Election schedule 2010-2013

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Mixed minerals

The job of Congo’s Centre d’Evaluation, d’Expertise et de Certification (CEEC) and its director, Léonide Mupepele, is to certify the value of metals produced, and so to ensure that the state gets its dues in taxes and charges. The vexing question is the v...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Kigali wins another round of the blame game

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held an emergency meeting with President Paul Kagame in Kigali on 8 September after the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping missions. Kigali’s logic was unassailable. A draft UN repor...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

The UN’s credibility on the line

Relations with the United Nations in general have taken a heavy hit. Kigali accuses the UN of leaking the report to distract attention from the inadequacies of its force in Congo-Kinshasa, renamed as the Mission de l’organisation des nations unies pour la...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

New pressure on the war-minerals link

Congo's 'clean' minerals are more politically toxic than buyers would like

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