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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 9
  •  1st May 2009

Speak easy

A month after Vital Kamerhe was forced out of office, a weakened National Assembly has followed President Joseph Kabila's instructions and voted in a new Speaker, Evariste Boshab (AC Vol 50 No 7). On 12 April, the police had forcibly dispersed some 40 me...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Controlling Parliament

The crisis is over and that is official. President Joseph Kabila’s attempts to remove National Assembly Speaker Vital Kamerhe resulted in his resignation on 25 March. Kamerhe’s crime was to have criticised Kabila’s launching of a joint military operation ...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Trouble in Kinshasa

President Joseph Kabila’s worsening rivalry with the Speaker of the National Assembly, Vital Kamerhe, is dividing the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Développement (PPRD), to which they both belong. Kamerhe’s latest offence is to have ...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Shotgun wedding

President Kabila's improbable deal with Rwanda could unravel and further weaken his authority in Kinshasa

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

A rift among rebels

Some want a ceasefire, others insist on a solution, with personalities as divisive as policies

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Nkunda wants the whole deal

The government cannot afford another war – and probably could not win it, so it must talk to its nemesis

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Mining downturn

Low demand for minerals, especially from China, depresses mines and the whole economy

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

The man who says no

Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda likes to compare his relentless campaign against the Kinshasa government with the military resistance of General Charles de Gaulle, 'the man who said no'. Taking the parallels further, Nkunda has announced the formation of a...

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

How smuggling pays for killing

Most of the Kivu belligerents profit, one way or another, from the two provinces' precious reserves of gold, cassiterite and colombo-tantalite (coltan). Gold and coffee smuggling has been going on for years. A British journalist, Nick Gordon, published a ...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Facing Nkunda

Foreign Ministers Bernard Kouchner of France and Karel de Gucht of Belgium want the European Union to send forces to take on General Laurent Nkunda and his rebel Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP). Thousands of people fled from Goma, the No...

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