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	Congo-Kinshasa
Population:	103.19m
GDP:	$72.48bn
Debt:	11.1% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 66 No 14 |

Trump’s peace deal hinges on minerals, militias – and megawatts

11th July 2025

A White House-brokered agreement promises regional calm and economic integration, but success depends on dislodging rebels and securing mining rights

Speaking at the White House on 27 June, during the signing of a new peace agreement by the Rwandan and Congolese foreign ministers, President Donald Trump declared that...

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Vol 66 No 14 |

Trump family allies broker security and mining deals in Central Africa

27th June 2025

Multiple mining investments and a hydropower project are riding on Kigali and Kinshasa making peace but details on military arrangements remain thin

US Africa Envoy Massad Boulos and US hedge fund executive Gentry Beach – both with close links to US President Donald J Trump’s family – were prime movers...

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Vol 66 No 13 |

Washington wants security-mining deal finalised by end of June

16th June 2025

Demands by Washington and Kinshasa for Rwanda to withdraw its troops are the key sticking point

The United States is stepping up the pressure on Kigali and Kinshasa to conclude a security-minerals access deal by the end of June. Both Washington and Kinshasa insist...

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Vol 66 No 12 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

US lawmakers demand ‘clarity’ on minerals’ role in peace talks

2nd June 2025

The Trump administration is taking a transactional approach to diplomacy in Africa

Five Democratic Congress members have sent a letter to President Donald Trump’s Africa advisor Massad Boulos demanding details of the administration’s deal on critical minerals that has accompanied...

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Vol 66 No 10 |

Ceasefire, minerals deal and troops out as peace deal takes shape

6th May 2025

Washington envoy Boulos has prompted Kinshasa and Kigali to offer mining rights and military changes

Under the terms of a peace process agreed with the United States, the governments of Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda are due to submit separate draft peace agreements ahead of...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

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UNITED STATES

Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa

18th April 2025

President Trump’s special advisor is testing transactional diplomacy amid the conflict and the continent’s biggest reserves of critical minerals

Washington’s latest intervention in Kinshasa, led by Massad Fares Boulos, senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump, is disrupting the calculations of Congolese politicians and warlords. Boulos,...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

How Trump’s in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists

18th April 2025

After meeting the US President’s senior Africa envoy, President Tshisekedi has blocked millions of dollars’ worth of consultancy deals

After agreeing contracts with a string of K-Street lobby shops worth close to US$8 million with mandate to broker a mineral access deal with US President Donald Trump’s...

Vol 66 No 6 |

Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change

20th March 2025

The collapse of negotiations offers some stark choices as President Tshisekedi’s position weakens further

A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

M23 militia blocks peace talks until Brussels drops sanctions

19th March 2025

The proliferation of negotiations in the Kinshasa-Kigali war is derailing the prospect for a ceasefire

Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Southern African militaries call time on their ill-fated Kivu operation

17th March 2025

The failure of the SADC mission sounds alarms about the future of multilateral attempts to resolve conflict on the continent

By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

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