Vol 61 No 7 | CONGO-KINSHASACORONAVIRUS The Kabila Strain 2nd April 2020 The health damage is not yet clear, but the economic consequences of the virus are grave, as the previous and current presidents squabble The Covid-19 pandemic took until the middle of March, when the first domestic cases were reported, to rouse the government. Then, on 18 March, President Félix Tshisekedi ann...
Vol 61 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Why Africa is key to Green Economics 5th March 2020 Strategic minerals on the continent will power the electric vehicle revolution and a restructured energy industry More than any other continent, Africa has copious reserves of the vital minerals central to the transition to sustainable energy in the leading industrial economies. READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 5 | CONGO-KINSHASA Clash of the kings 5th March 2020 Fighting for control over revenues and security, President Tshisekedi is in a standoff with supporters of his predecessor Joseph Kabila Senior officials in the two coalitions which run the country – the Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) and the Cap pour le changement (CACH) – are at a stalemate. For several days in ...
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 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-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...
