Vol 3 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINA Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards 12th February 2010 Agreed in November 2009, the second phase of infrastructure deals associated with the Sicomines joint venture is worth US$400 million and is expected to provide Congolese President Joseph Kabila with a...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASA Donald Kaberuka 12th February 2010 President, African Development Bank As President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka received red-carpet treatment on his visit to China on 3-6 February. A troop of dignitaries turned out to welcome...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 4 | CONGO-KINSHASA Evariste Boshab 12th February 2010 President, National Assembly, Congo-Kinshasa Evariste Boshab, Secretary General of the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie, has become an essential contact for Congo-courting diplomats, particularly those from Asia’s...
Vol 50 No 25 | CONGO-KINSHASA A storm in the fish ponds 18th December 2009 What seemed to start as a local quarrel has turned into a new challenge to the beleaguered Congolese state Small rows can end in great slaughter and the Congolese government is powerless to limit it. A humanitarian catastrophe and a political uprising started around some fish ponds...
Vol 50 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASAUNITED NATIONS The Experts win support 4th December 2009 Resisting pressure to overlook those breaking the arms embargo, the UNSC’s reaction to a hard-hitting investigation is suprisingly robust The United Nations Security Council has resisted heavy pressure to reject the hard-hitting UN Panel of Experts' Report(i) on violations, by African and Western states, of the embargo...
Vol 50 No 22 | ANGOLACONGO-KINSHASA Throwing out the neighbours 6th November 2009 A spree of mutual expulsions disguises long-standing economic disputes The two big neighbours have been busily expelling each others' nationals and the resulting tension hides their disagreements about oil, diamonds and the hoped-for electric power from a...
Vol 50 No 20 | CONGO-KINSHASA Mines, dollars and dams 8th October 2009 A decade after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the Kinshasa government is still plagued by grand corruption and its reform efforts look hollow Several inconvenient facts are undermining President Joseph Kabila's ambitious 'zero tolerance' anti-corruption campaign. Recent reports highlight the failure of efforts to reform Congo's state and the continuing pillage...
Vol 50 No 20 | CONGO-KINSHASA Dam intrigues 8th October 2009 Congo-Kinshasa's government has for ten years made no progress towards building a new dam to replace the underused hydropower stations at Inga on the Congo River. The existing...
Vol 50 No 20 | CONGO-KINSHASA Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines 8th October 2009 Tenke Fungurume Mining: The world's largest, publicly-traded copper miner, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., and Lundin Mining Corporation control the fabled Tenke and Fungurume deposits. Uncertainty over...
Vol 50 No 17 | CONGO-KINSHASA Sweet freedom 28th August 2009 Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo could soon be freed by the International Criminal Court. The ICC will meet on 7-14 September with governments that might host him:...