Vol 61 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA More trickle-down please 23rd January 2020 There has to be more in it for Tshisekedi’s camp followers if his uneasy partnership with the former president is to survive The coalition of the Cap pour le changement (CACH) alliance, led by President Félix Tshisekedi, and ex-President Joseph Kabila's Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) is unhappy ...
Vol 60 No 25 | CONGO-KINSHASA Pouring cold water on the mega dam 19th December 2019 Behind closed doors, the fight over the scale of the Inga dam could be edging towards resolution Félix Tshisekedi's arrival in the presidential palace has brought new complications to Inga III, the gargantuan planned hydroelectric dam on the Congo River, but may yet giv... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 25 | GABON The son also rises 19th December 2019 The man standing in for the President looked like he might be settling in, so the ruling clan swept him away and has appointed a dauphin With the installation of his son Noureddin Bongo-Valentin as the 'general coordinator of presidential affairs', recuperating stroke victim President Ali Bongo Ondimba – or th...
Vol 60 No 19 | CONGO-KINSHASA Of puppets and godfathers 27th September 2019 Accusations of corruption against the President’s appointees are weakening him in his fight with Kabila 'I am not a puppet', President Félix Tshisekedi keeps insisting, most recently to the Belgian government and the Congolese diaspora in Brussels during a recent state visit to the ...
Vol 60 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASAZAMBIA The China price 13th September 2019 Facing corruption probes and resource nationalism, Western mining companies are quitting the Copperbelt Producing 70% of the world's cobalt, an essential component of electric car batteries and mobile phones, Africa's Copperbelt is in the midst of a sweeping transformation. Seeking t... READ FOR FREE
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...
