Vol 62 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Félix tips the scales 4th February 2021 The President is winning greater control of the country but at the expense of his promise to restore the rule of law President Félix Tshisekedi is steadily gaining ground in his bid to assume complete political control in Congo-Kinshasa, but he is playing fast and loose with the constitution in t...
Vol 62 No 2 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Victory under a cloud 21st January 2021 The President’s poll win is confirmed, but clashes with rebels in the capital signal a new security crisis After hearing petitions from opposition candidates against the presidential election win of Faustin Archange Touadéra in the December election, the Constitutional Court formally co...
Vol 62 No 2 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Sassou soldiers on 21st January 2021 It came as no surprise when, just before Christmas, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso was officially nominated by the ruling Parti Congolais du Travail (PCT) as its candidate in the 2...
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 62 No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASA Jockeying for position 7th January 2021 The struggle between the President and his predecessor overshadows everything, including a possible IMF programme Politics during 2021 will be dominated by the power struggle between the two official winners – losers, in reality – of the 2018 presidential and parliamentary election...
Vol 62 No 1 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRWANDARUSSIA Elections crisis escalates as Russian and Rwandan troops fly in 23rd December 2020 Facing a coalition of rebel militias opposed to his government and the elections, President Touadéra has called for help from Moscow and Kigali, sidelining the UN Presidential and parliamentary elections due on 27 December are in the balance as a coalition of militias tries to oust President Faustin Archange Touadéra, replacing him with ex-P...
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 61 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASA Tshisekedi’s moment of truth 3rd December 2020 The President faces a fork in the road, after national consultations aimed at breaking a tense impasse with his predecessor fizzle out President Félix Tshisekedi faces an expectant nation. He has split up the coalition with former President Joseph Kabila's Front Commun pour le Congo (FCC) and finished a mon...
Vol 61 No 24 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Pre-election jitters 3rd December 2020 The funeral of Maryse, the late wife of Jean-Serge Bokassa, son of the former Central African Republic 'Emperor' Jean-Bedel Bokassa, witnessed a serious incident which disrupted th...
Vol 61 No 22 | CONGO-KINSHASA Stepping back from the brink 5th November 2020 The President nearly broke up his coalition with his predecessor but backed off at the last minute. He still wants a way out The announcement on 21 October that President Félix Tshisekedi would address the nation in two days generated fevered anticipation that he would dismiss his government, dissolve th...
