Vol 49 No 8 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASAOIL AND GAS Lake Albert and the gushers 11th April 2008 Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and co...
Vol 49 No 7 | CONGO-KINSHASA The spirit moves them 28th March 2008 Kinshasa futilely and violently tries to quash the longstanding BDK separatist threat in the west, leaving scores of people dead Once again, the political-religious cult Bundu dia Kongo has set off a bloody conflict in the province of Bas-Congo, near the mouth of the Congo River. The United Nations mission i...
Vol 49 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Down the mines 14th March 2008 The government wants to sort out its mining concessions and the investors are nervous At last, the bargaining can begin. The government has given the private mining companies details of the terms of the new and renewed contracts that they will be offered. The 61 fir...
Vol 49 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Goma's ghosts 14th March 2008 Peace has not broken out in the Kivus yet. In Goma diplomats are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed last month between the Congolese government, dissident G...
Vol 49 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Déjà Kivu 1st February 2008 The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its predecessors, in renewed regional wars A ceasefire in Congo's eastern war was agreed on 23 January by the Kinshasa government and armed factions from North and South Kivu after a three-week conference in Goma. The argum...
Vol 49 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs 1st February 2008 President Joseph Kabila, by an order dated 12 January, massively increased his economic power and political patronage. He replaced the heads of 37 state enterprises with his own me...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINA Ambitious investments 3rd November 2008 Chinese interests are to help draw up a national development plan for Congo-Kinshasa China's activities in Congo-Kinshasa began with mining, moved into infrastructure and are now more ambitious still: they are diversifying into national development planning. Rela...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA Blue helmets, red faces 5th November 2008 Investigations into sexual abuse charges are to get underway soon India's defence minister A. K. Antony has ordered 'prompt and time-bound' investigations into charges of child sexual abuse by 60 of its soldiers deployed to the Mission des Na...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINALATIN AMERICA Number crunching 6th November 2008 Is there Chinese corruption afoot in Congo-Kinshasa? Beijing's multi-billion dollar plans for Congo-Kinshasa are hitting new obstacles as questions are being asked about the transparency of the new deals and the behaviour of Chines...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA More policing of the peacekeepers 6th November 2008 Indian soldiers are being accused of not knowing where their loyalties lie Indian peacekeepers in the United Nations' troubled mission in Congo-Kinshasa face a new investigation - this time into claims that a senior officer has publicly declared his sup...