Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 66.0 million
GDP: $11100 million
Debt: $125% of GDP
Overview:

With leading oppositionists Jean-Pierre Bemba and Etienne Tshisekedi unlikely to campaign effectively, President Joseph Kabila prepares for an easier run in the 2011 elections. The mandate of the United Nations peacekeepers has been extended until June.

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  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Guerre du lac

Commercial rivalries and contractual disputes over oil reserves in Lake Albert, which runs along the Congo-Kinshasa/ Uganda border, are heating up. Tensions between their two armies have ebbed even if the border row continues to rumble.

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

The wooing of Kinshasa

President Joseph Kabila and his cabinet are much in demand as access to Congo-Kinshasa’s minerals is again contested.

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Le scandale géologique

Under-resourced and under fire - and under investigation again

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Contracts under review

Some of the companies mentioned on the list of 60 contracts under review - and some that weren't

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Contract committee

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Mining men

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Kasongo v CAMEC

Former England cricketer Phil Edmonds’s roller-coaster ride in Africa is going up again after a 19 September court ruling in Kinshasa recognising the legality of his Central African Mining and Exploration Company’s mining licences. After CAMEC, which i...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

More fighting, more aid

Renewed fighting in the eastern provinces could help the government to qualify more quickly for aid

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

Nkunda in the hills

From a farmhouse in the Masisi Hills, dissident General Laurent Nkunda has told Africa Confidential that he is ready to fight to the bitter end to prevent what he says is an impending attack to wipe out his fellow Congolese Tutsi. Nkunda's rhetoric ha...

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

Kivu clashes ahead

Fears are growing of a confrontation between the forces of General Laurent Nkunda and the government's Forces Armées Congolaises in North Kivu Province next month. We hear that the United Nations' Mission des Nations Unies en République ...

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