Vol 60 No 15 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Fund falls for Sassou 26th July 2019 The IMF sees the country as a test case for African nations which borrowed heavily from China. It is being lenient President Denis Sassou-Nguesso appears, again, to have secured victory over the International Monetary Fund, obtaining an urgently needed bail-out in exchange for promises that he ...
Vol 60 No 15 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kasaï peace at risk 26th July 2019 An ambitious provincial governor’s new appointments and initiatives threaten to anger armed militants now on a ceasefire Violence engulfed Kasaï Central Province between 2016 and 2018, when the anti-government Kamuina Nsapu militia – aggrieved about the murder of their traditional leader by the...
Vol 60 No 14 | CONGO-KINSHASA Terminated 12th July 2019 After a three-year trial in which more than 2,000 victims were represented, three International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have found Jean Bosco Ntaganda, 45, also known as 'The T...
Vol 60 No 13 | CONGO-KINSHASA Mbororo conundrum 28th June 2019 Fulani herders – already involved in clashes in the Sahel – are being targeted by unscrupulous politicians and the dangers levels are rising In Congo-Kinshasa's Haut Uele province, which borders South Sudan and Central African Republic, inflammatory rhetoric from the authorities and civil society against the nomadic, ca...
Vol 60 No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASA Tshisekedi tries his luck 14th June 2019 A test of the President’s ability to challenge Kabila’s influence is coming up over how the state mining company is run President Félix Tshisekedi's decision to reappoint Albert Yuma Mulimbi – one of ex-President Joseph Kabila's closest allies – as head of Congo-Kinshasa's largest state-owned minin...
Vol 60 No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASA Missing you already 14th June 2019 The grand old man of Congolese politics gets a state send-off, and the funeral offers a chance for political manoeuvres Two years and four months after the old man passed away, the body of veteran Congolese politician Étienne Tshisekedi finally returned from Brussels to Congo-Kinshasa on 30 May. Tho...
Vol 60 No 12 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Enemies without, and within 14th June 2019 UN peacekeepers and other security sources confirm that units from at least two battalions of the Rwanda Defence Force have taken positions inside Congo-Kinshasa, to hunt down grou...
Vol 60 No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASA A shake-up takes shape 31st May 2019 In spite of Kabila’s enduring power, politics is on the move, militias are mobilising, and fresh alliances are forming The return to Congo-Kinshasa after three years in exile of Moïse Katumbi, the former Governor of Katanga, is set to shake up national politics even as ex-President Joseph Kabila re...
Vol 60 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila corners Tshisekedi 22nd March 2019 The ex-president may have left the official residence but he now has the power to remove his successor at will Elections to fill the 108 seats of Congo-Kinshasa's senate have delivered Joseph Kabila's political coalition a decisive majority in the upper house and handed him the power to imp...
Vol 60 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASAMINING Contradictions in the contracts 8th March 2019 Companies are adjusting their strategies in an era of resource nationalism It seemed like a defining moment when Mark Bristow, the new chief executive officer of Barrick Gold, was asked at the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town last month how much of the ...
