Vol 53 No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASA The trouble after Katumba 17th February 2012 The death of the country’s quintessential dealmaker leaves its leadership confused and exposed At the funeral wake on 13 February in Kinshasa for Augustin Katumba Mwanke were two men whose careers had critically depended on him: President Joseph Kabila Kabange and mining mag...
Vol 53 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA Opposition steps up fight 20th January 2012 The parliamentary election results look no more credible than the presidential vote and oppositionists wants to test Kabila’s will Battle lines are hardening as disputes rage over the results of November’s legislative and presidential elections. Although the parliamentary results are not to be formally announc...
Vol 53 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA No confidence vote from companies 20th January 2012 The election campaign and its dubious results have made foreign companies jumpy. In early January, the monetary policy and banking operations department of the central bank, the Ba...
Vol 53 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA Electoral chicanery and the UN 20th January 2012 Electoral fraud has rarely been better documented than in the presidential poll of 28 November, of which every stage involved the Mission de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l...
Vol 53 No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASA One election, two countries 6th January 2012 The new dividing line in the country is between those who believe that Joseph Kabila won the presidency and those who don’t President Joseph Kabila’s year will start with a strenuous effort to re-establish credibility. The official results of the 28 November elections gave him 48.95% of the vote, agains...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINABRIEFING China Development Bank eyes the Grand Inga 2nd October 2012 China Development Bank has expressed its interest in backing Congo-Kinshasa’s colossal Grand Inga Dam project. The announcement was made during the visit of Zou Lixing, a CDB Vice-...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 8 | CONGO-KINSHASA Wildcats in the wild east 1st June 2012 Pushed by local activists and international partners, Kinshasa is breaking some of the Chinese links to the illicit mining trade in eastern Congo The Kinshasa government has succumbed to international pressure and is implementing sanctions against Chinese companies implicated in the trade of minerals of doubtful origin.
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINABELGIUM Experts rate foreign aid 10th February 2012 Researchers from three continents analyse the impact of Belgian and Chinese aid projects and policies A new report from Belgian, Chinese and Congolese academics provides in-depth analysis on the contrasts between European and Chinese aid and trade policies in Congo-Kinshasa. Neithe...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASA Gécamines strikes again 10th February 2012 Gécamines has used strong-arm tactics once again, this time to block the investment plans of Australia’s Anvil Mining. The state-owned mining company’s decision to review its partn...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINA Frozen funds 10th November 2011 The finance for the Congolese-Chinese joint venture has been held up and Kinshasa wants the mining companies to bridge the gap China is withholding money that is needed to rehabilitate 700 kilometres of railway in Katanga and Kasai, leading the Congolese government to call on mining companies to raise the ...
