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Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 59.3 million
GNI: $7700 million
Debt: $9400 million
Overview: Diplomats will step up efforts to dampen down conflict in the Kivus, as President Joseph Kabila faces huge financing and infrastructure deficits, and must rule on the validity of some key mining contracts.

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  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

A frontier affair

Old allies in Luanda and Kinshasa are at odds over their border in diamond country

  • Vol 48 No 7
  • 30/03/2007

A BLOW-UP BLOWS OVER

Congo has its uranium scandal, and the International Atomic Energy Agency is investigating. New Minister for Scientific Research Sylvanus Mushi Bonane opened up the affair on 15 March by announcing the arrest of Professor Fortunat Lumu and one of his ...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Winner takes (almost) all

The President's party has grabbed the top jobs for itself and those who are left out are angry

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Kabila's yes-men

The overstuffed government has 60 members: six ministers of state, 34 ministers and 20 deputy ministers. The presidential alliance takes 18 places, 15 of those for President Joseph Kabila's own Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démoc...

  • Vol 47 No 23
  • 17/11/2006

After the results

If accepted, President Kabila's win offers a chance for Congo to consolidate its political settlement and to develop its mineral resources.

  • Vol 47 No 23
  • 17/11/2006

Presidential chopper

Congolese President Joseph Kabila's campaign helicopter is at the centre of a legal battle between Belgian businessman Philippe de Moerloose and Guinea's Paramount Airlines' Ismaël Doukouré.

  • Vol 47 No 19
  • 22/09/2006

One of us cannot be wrong

Both President Kabila and challenger Bemba believe they can win the presidential poll

  • Vol 47 No 17
  • 25/08/2006

Explosive results

Nobody has won the 30 July presidential elections in results announced on 20 August. Instead there will be a run-off between Joseph Kabila (45 per cent) and Jean-Pierre Bemba (20 per cent) on 29 October. Hours before the official announcement it was c...

  • Vol 47 No 16
  • 04/08/2006

Two elections, one country

Voting and political sentiment is more divided than ever between the east and west of the country

  • Vol 47 No 15
  • 21/07/2006

A new political season

After four decades without real elections, Congolese now face five months of voting

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