Vol 61 No 25 | CONGO-KINSHASA President nearer to power 17th December 2020 Parliamentary victory for Tshisekedi encourages him to press ahead in his bid to wrest the state from former president Kabila Former president Joseph Kabila's political coalition, the Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC), which ordinarily has a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, scored a spectacul...
Vol 62 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA No get out of jail card 21st January 2021 Former President Joseph Kabila is desperately seeking assurances from his successor President Félix Tshisekedi that he be guaranteed immunity from prosecution by the International...
Vol 51 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASA Will the UN bail out of Congo? 3rd December 2010 Another month, another United Nations' report on Congo-Kinshasa. Yet do these reports, or indeed the UN in general, help improve conditions in Congo? At around 19,000 strong, the...
Vol 64 No 15 | CONGO-KINSHASA Pour encourager les autres? 20th July 2023 A top ally of presidential candidate and Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi has been murdered in Kinshasa, leading to speculation that would-be presidential candidates ar...
Vol 54 No 13 | CONGO-KINSHASA The real power politics 21st June 2013 The latest plan to harness the Congo River is gigantic, internationally important, expensive and politically driven A meeting of officials and investors in Kinshasa, hosted on 17-18 June by Energy Minister Bruno Kapandji Kalala on financing the Inga III Dam signals the government’s new ser...