Vol 66 No 19 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Its other African engagement – a $5 million six-month lobbying contract with Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi – was abruptly cancelled just weeks after signing at the insistence of Trump's Africa advisor Massad Boulos (AC Vol 66 No 8 How Trump's in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists)...
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Vol 66 No 17 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Félix Tshisekedi has gone for a broad coalition in a major reshuffle that brings in opposition politicians senior former ministers and parastatal bosses...
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Szlavik is also on retainer with President Félix Tshisekedi in Congo-Kinshasa who has offered the US access to his country's minerals as part of the fragile peace deal with Rwanda brokered by the US to end M23's military incursions in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 14 Trump family allies broker security and mining deals in Central Africa)...
Boulos says deals in both sectors will be signed at the White House in July when Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame are expected to attend a grand ceremony...
Although officially operating alongside the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) Uganda's General Muhoozi Kainerugaba – son of President Yoweri Museveni – travelled to Kinshasa in June where he met President Félix Tshisekedi to extend bilateral military cooperation...
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The prompt for Boulos was a letter that President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa had sent to President Trump in February offering special access to his country's estimated US$3 trillion reserves of critical minerals in return for security guarantees and help in expelling Rwandan troops and their M23 militia allies from Congo-K (AC Vol 66 No 6 Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change)...
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Officials in Congo-K President Félix Tshisekedi's office have accused Rwanda of dragging its feet in negotiations...
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Lourenço may be reluctant to mediate in CAR after the dramatic failure of his mediation between Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame...
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President Félix Tshisekedi is trying to shore up his position after reports that former president Joseph Kabila wants to return to Congolese politics after self-exile in South Africa...
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Boulos a Francophone Lebanese whose son Michael Boulos is married to Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump met with Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi on 3 April to discuss prospects for a ceasefire and US investments in the mining sector...
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After agreeing contracts with a string of K-Street lobby shops worth close to US$8 million with mandate to broker a mineral access deal with US President Donald Trump's administration President Félix Tshisekedi has made a U-turn sacking them all...
