Vol 57 No 5 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Ex-ally vs Sassou 4th March 2016 President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's decision to bring forward the presidential election date by three months to 20 March prompted General Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko to declare himself a candidate. Less...
Vol 57 No 5 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC New leader's old problems 23rd February 2016 The dry, technocratic former premier has won the election but choosing his own premier and forming a government will be no easy task Faustin Archange Touadéra's victory in the presidential election is a small step towards national reconstruction after a year of intercommunal warfare and two more of chaotic and corrupt...
Vol 57 No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASA New danger in the Kivus 19th February 2016 Militia violence is on the rise in the east, as is ethnic tension within the national army Most of the two Kivu provinces in Congo-Kinshasa's troubled east are more peaceful than they were, thanks to neither President Paul Kagame of Rwanda nor President Yoweri Museveni...
Vol 57 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Poll delay cheers Kabila 5th February 2016 Delays to the compilation of the electoral register have now ensured that President Joseph Kabila stays in office beyond when the next elections should take place. The electoral...
Vol 57 No 2 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Democracy sans frontières 22nd January 2016 The first round of the presidential election was chaotic and flawed but the end of a disastrous transition is widely welcomed The questions over the conduct and legitimacy of the presidential and legislative elections were well known (AC Vol 56 No 18). The electoral register was not worth its...
Vol 56 No 25 | CONGO-KINSHASA The Kinshasa shell game 18th December 2015 The President has been wooing rival parties to come into his big tent but some have their own agendas The Tshisekedi clan has done it again. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, son of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, the octogenarian leader of the opposition Union pour la démocratie et...
Vol 56 No 22 | CONGO-KINSHASA Katumbi treads a fine line 6th November 2015 Critics claim the Katangese billionaire is in cahoots with Kabila but supporters say he wants to stand on his own terms in his own time Moïse Katumbi Chapwe, the man that opposition politicians hope could unseat President Joseph Kabila, has spoken out against the government announcement that national and presidential elections should be...
Vol 56 No 22 | GABON Capital flight 6th November 2015 An embarrassing airing of the wealth, extravagance and lavish use of private jets by President Ali Bongo and his family and vast entourage is in store, once a...
Vol 56 No 20 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Term after term 8th October 2015 A mass demonstration on 27 September against a third presidential term for President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is unlikely to translate into a Burkina Faso- style revolution, Brazzaville pundits say....
Vol 56 No 20 | CONGO-KINSHASA The missing coltan princess 8th October 2015 Belgian and German police are seeking 'Princess' Odette Maniema Krempin, a key witness in the mysterious disappearance in Kinshasa in May 2014 of Stephan de Witte. He was...