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Congo-Kinshasa
Population: 70.4 mn.
GDP: 13.0 bn.
Debt: 2.4 bn.
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President Joseph Kabila's disputed election victory will dominate politics as opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi declares himself the 'real' president. Militia violence will plague the east but mining output is due to grow by about 15% over the next four years.

Congo-Kinshasa Country Report

 


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  • Vol 51 No 11
  •  28th May 2010

More muddles in the mines

It seems impossible to keep politicians, and suspect characters, away from Congo’s rich mineral resources

  • Vol 51 No 11
  •  28th May 2010

The fight for cellphones

Amid local trade wars, Vodacom-Congo is feeling the pinch and contemplating pulling out of the DRC

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Elections loom as Kabila comes under fire from all sides

Next month, Congolese will mark 50 troubled years of Independence from Belgium amid growing concern about security and development prospects under President Kabila’s government. Kabila and the ruling PPRD are feverishly preparing for elections next yea...

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

The UN packs its bags

The Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (Monuc) believes it has made progress in its stabilisation strategy for eastern Congo. Since the beginning of 2009, US$260 million have been invested in programmes in the Kivus, the Uélés, ...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

River raid

A raid on Mbandaka, capital of Equateur Province, underlines the nation’s insecurity. Between 40 and 60 men of the Enyele people arrived on the riverboat Malaika (‘Angel’) armed with bows and arrows and a few rifles, and soon took over the town and its ai...

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Le scandale pétrolier

The country now produces a paltry 25,000 barrels a day but the big international oil companies are lining up to buy their way into Congo-Kinshasa. Smaller companies have been locked in wrangles with each other and successive Kinshasa officials for several...

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Contention and contenders

In the Albertine Graben (Lake Albert, Lake Edward and land in between and around), the rivalry is international.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Contractual confusion

The disputes about Congo-Kinshasa’s oil concessions, licences, claims and terms have grown so tangled that, we hear, President Joseph Kabila may ask Uganda for help with a review. There were armed clashes between the two countries’ forces in 2007 over the...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

The next oil scramble

A new battle for oil blocks has started in the troubled north-east after France’s Total announced that it was seeking acreage in the Lake Albert basin, in alliance with Ireland’s fast-growing Tullow Oil (AC Vol 51 No 3). That sets the scene for a repeat o...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Kabila's new slim-look cabinet

A cabinet reshuffle brings in a few new faces but fails to find the promised seats for the CNDP

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