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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 46 No 25
  • 16/12/2005

Cinderella and the generals

European Union envoy Aldo Ajello calls its the 'Cinderella effect'. Congo's well-heeled generals and politicians fear that the elections - like the chimes of midnight for Cinderella - will signal the end of their wealth and influence under the unwieldy...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Politicians on notice

The power-sharing regime is under fire for corruption and undermining next year's elections

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Follow the money

Western states, paying $300 million for elections, want to see the government's books

  • Vol 46 No 16
  • 05/08/2005

Full circle

The troubled Sengamines diamond operation is back where it started six years ago when a group of Gulf Arab businessmen and Zimbabwean generals carved out a chunk of the state's mining concessions around Mbuji-Mayi in an opaque trade-off with the late P...

  • Vol 46 No 13
  • 24/06/2005

Revolution day

Planned protests against postponing the elections test the regime's will

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Missing a basic law

Arguments over the new constitution are delaying the elections and infuriating the opposition<

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

IMF reprieve

An International Monetary Fund mission to Kinshasa in mid-February led by Cyrille Briançon is to give the government a pass-mark and recommend that the final tranche of its poverty reduction and growth facility of about US$40 million be handed ...

  • Vol 46 No 3
  • 04/02/2005

Peace is pricey

Kinshasa's political chiefs will lose their incomes if they lose the elections

  • Vol 46 No 2
  • 21/01/2005

Impossible vote

The announcement that the elections are to be postponed by at least six months has sparked a new wave of political unrest from all sides. Few would argue with Father Apollinaire Malu Malu, Chairman of Congo's Commission Electorale Indépendante, ...

  • Vol 45 No 25
  • 17/12/2004

On edge

The fighting in North Kivu threatens both next year's promised elections and Congo's fragile peace. President Joseph Kabila's cheerleaders in Kinshasa blame Rwandan aggression for the latest clashes, and claim to have captured Rwandan soldiers. Kigali ...

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