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- Vol 49 No 10
- 09/05/2008
Drifting apart
The habitual politeness between Belgium and its former colony grew thinner still during a five-day visit to Kinshasa in late April by three ministers from Brussels, Karel De Gucht (Foreign Affairs), Charles Michel (Cooperation) and Pieter De Crem (Def...
- Vol 49 No 10
- 09/05/2008
Under cover
The halting of United Nations' investigations into allegations of abuses by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo-Kinshasa raises new questions about UN accountability and the legal responsibilities of troop contributing countries. BBC Africa Ed...
- Vol 49 No 8
- 11/04/2008
Lake Albert and the gushers
Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest is T...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
The spirit moves them
Kinshasa futilely and violently tries to quash the longstanding BDK separatist threat in the west, leaving scores of people dead
- Vol 49 No 6
- 14/03/2008
Down the mines
The government wants to sort out its mining concessions and the investors are nervous
- Vol 49 No 6
- 14/03/2008
Goma's ghosts
Peace has not broken out in the Kivus yet. In Goma diplomats are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed last month between the Congolese government, dissident General Laurent Nkunda's Congrès National pour la Défense ...
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Déjà Kivu
The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its predecessors, in renewed regional wars
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs
President Joseph Kabila, by an order dated 12 January, massively increased his economic power and political patronage. He replaced the heads of 37 state enterprises with his own men. The former bosses, appointed under pressure from his government's in...
- Vol 48 No 23
- 16/11/2007
The tail wags the dog
The Kinshasa government is rocked by its failures to resolve the conflict in the eastern Kivu provinces
- Vol 48 No 23
- 16/11/2007
Mining undermined
Mining companies were dismayed and share prices wobbled after draft copies of Congo's mining contracts review started circulating in Kinshasa last week. The leaked document is a damning indictment of the country's mining sector. Not one of the more th...
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