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- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
Throwing out the neighbours
A spree of mutual expulsions disguises long-standing economic disputes
- Vol 50 No 20
- 08/10/2009
Mines, dollars and dams
A decade after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the Kinshasa government is still plagued by grand corruption and its reform efforts look hollow
- Vol 50 No 20
- 08/10/2009
Dam intrigues
Congo-Kinshasa's government has for ten years made no progress towards building a new dam to replace the underused hydropower stations at Inga on the Congo River. The existing Inga-1 and Inga-2 hydroelectric dams exploit less than 5% of the site's 40,0...
- Vol 50 No 20
- 08/10/2009
Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines
Tenke Fungurume Mining: The world's largest, publicly-traded copper miner, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., and Lundin Mining Corporation control the fabled Tenke and Fungurume deposits. Uncertainty over its contract review has not stopped it f...
- Vol 50 No 17
- 28/08/2009
Sweet freedom
Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo could soon be freed by the International Criminal Court. The ICC will meet on 7-14 September with governments that might host him: South Africa, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Portugal.
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
Eastern foes at war again
Foreign attempts to strengthen the army and police, led by Monuc and the EU, are inchoate, ineffective and under-funded
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
A multinational road to army reform
In late April, Britain announced that it would give £80 million (US$131.5 mn.) towards strengthening Congo-Kinshasa's security forces. Half was for police reform, £30 mn. was for 'domestic and external control' of the army and police, with £10 mn. for...
- Vol 50 No 11
- 29/05/2009
The cement boom
In both Angola and Congo-Kinshasa, public works produce surprising profits for well-connected cement producers, but an oil-fired building boom requires a lot of cement. Angola's Minister of Public Works, General Francisco Higino Lopes Carneiro, said in...
- Vol 50 No 11
- 29/05/2009
The China choice
Congo-Kinshasa's dilemma over how to finalise a US$9 billion minerals barter deal with China without jeopardising a debt-reduction deal with the International Monetary Fund will not be resolved until September at the earliest. That is when the Chinese...
- Vol 50 No 10
- 15/05/2009
A credit-crunch presidency
In the midst of the recession, there is barely any investment in Congo, which bodes ill for President Kabila in the elections due in 2011
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