Congo-Kinshasa

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 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

  • Vol 47 No 15
  • 21/07/2006

Front-runners and hopefuls

In these elections, the first to be held in Congo-Kinshasa since March/April 1965, no less than 33 presidential candidates are registered with the Commission Electorale Indépendante (CEI). Perhaps five are serious contenders. Of the registered pol...

  • Vol 47 No 13
  • 23/06/2006

The vote that nobody wins

Hugely expensive, massively complex, extremely dangerous, the polls will go ahead anyway

  • Vol 47 No 13
  • 23/06/2006

Les jeux sont faits

With just over a month to go until elections, unexpected alliances have emerged. President Joseph Kabila, the Commission Electorale Indépendante headed by Apollinaire Malu Malu and the United Nations Security Council want the vote to proceed as...

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