A dangerous rift has opened at the top of the transitional government, between President Joseph Kabila and Azarias Ruberwa, one of the four vice-presidents and leader of the largest former rebel group, the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie...
President Mbeki's diplomatic forays into Congo have a sound commercial base
The King of Rumba Rock's troubles are rebounding on other Congolese musicians. Jeany Ibela-Ibel, President of the Congolese artists' union, complains that European immigration authorities are victimising Congolese musicians and alleges that it is now alm...
Congolese desperation – not great leaders or Western generosity – is forcing change
Kinshasa has high hopes of the World Bank consultative group meeting in Paris on 17-18 December, where eight Congolese ministers will argue for more aid to consolidate the peace. At the top of the agenda is more money for the Programme Multisectoriel d'Ur...
Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's power-sharing government in Kinshasa. Based in Congo-Kinshas...
President Joseph Kabila's planned meeting with United States President George Bush on 5 November is a personal triumph for Israeli diamond trader and Congo's ambassador at large Dan Gertler who, along with his business partner Chaim Leibovitz, has been cu...
President Kabila is thriving in the new coalition but many fear it will be the last chance to reunite the country
Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile, General Kpama Baramoto Kata, Belgium can't find a country willing to take him. Baramoto was detained at Brussels airport on 27 July arriving from the United States, ...
After weeks of denials, the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force is to stay in Congo's north-east Ituri district past its declared exit date of 1 September to assist United Nations peacekeepers to deploy under a UN Security Council resolution ...
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