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 ...
Vol 60 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA A day of portents 28th January 2019 The inauguration of the new president witnessed incidents that gave a foretaste of the kind of regime the country can look forward to The day – 24 January – of Congo-Kinshasa's first peaceful handover of power since independence in 1960, was full of signs and omens. One of them was the sight of young ...
Vol 60 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote 15th January 2019 Whistleblowers in the government point to fraud behind a deal between outgoing President Kabila and claimed poll-winner Félix Tshisekedi A cache of data leaked from the state's electoral commission points to an overwhelming victory by opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu, reinforcing earlier calls by regi... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASA Church claims sweeping opposition win 4th January 2019 Early results – which the regime is banning the media from reporting – indicate a win for the opposition after government plans to fix the poll went awry A showdown is looming after the country’s Catholic bishops announced they knew who had won the presidential election on 30 December, as anger builds after delays in the release of ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 25 | CONGO-KINSHASA The Twelve Fixes of Christmas 21st December 2018 A state-funded campaign war chest, fraud and intimidation make the President’s dauphin the heavy favourite on 23 December Expectations of electoral chaos, fraud and intimidation lead many to conclude that Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, one of President Joseph Kabila's ultra-loyalists, will be declared the... READ FOR FREE
