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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 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Mines, dollars and dams

A decade after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the Kinshasa government is still plagued by grand corruption and its reform efforts look hollow

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Dam intrigues

Congo-Kinshasa's government has for ten years made no progress towards building a new dam to replace the underused hydropower stations at Inga on the Congo River. The existing Inga-1 and Inga-2 hydroelectric dams exploit less than 5% of the site's 40,000-...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines

Tenke Fungurume Mining: The world's largest, publicly-traded copper miner, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., and Lundin Mining Corporation control the fabled Tenke and Fungurume deposits. Uncertainty over its contract review has not stopped it from...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

Sweet freedom

Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo could soon be freed by the International Criminal Court. The ICC will meet on 7-14 September with governments that might host him: South Africa, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Portugal.

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Eastern foes at war again

Foreign attempts to strengthen the army and police, led by Monuc and the EU, are inchoate, ineffective and under-funded

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

A multinational road to army reform

In late April, Britain announced that it would give £80 million (US$131.5 mn.) towards strengthening Congo-Kinshasa's security forces. Half was for police reform, £30 mn. was for 'domestic and external control' of the army and police, with £10 mn. for imp...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

The cement boom

In both Angola and Congo-Kinshasa, public works produce surprising profits for well-connected cement producers, but an oil-fired building boom requires a lot of cement. Angola's Minister of Public Works, General Francisco Higino Lopes Carneiro, said in la...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

The China choice

Congo-Kinshasa's dilemma over how to finalise a US$9 billion minerals barter deal with China without jeopardising a debt-reduction deal with the International Monetary Fund will not be resolved until September at the earliest. That is when the Chinese com...

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

A credit-crunch presidency

In the midst of the recession, there is barely any investment in Congo, which bodes ill for President Kabila in the elections due in 2011

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

An offshore imbroglio

The two countries set up a joint commission to resolve long-standing border rows

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