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Vol 64 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Former militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's surprise return to President Félix Tshisekedi's government as minister of defence and deputy prime minister is all about building an election-winning coalition but could create stability problems within the country and regionally (AC Vol 64 No 1 Horse-trading risks poll delay)...
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Her visit was criticised by Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi who accused Britain of 'turning a blind eye' to abuses of the Kagame regime...
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Vol 64 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
But in Brazzaville – under Denis Sassou-Nguesso's authoritarian sway for all but five of the past 43 years – it will be harder to escape echoes of old françafrique complicity while Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi is sure to push for more assertive French condemnation of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels threatening Goma...
President Félix Tshisekedi has been consolidating power but that does not mean accountability and better governance are any closer than when he fraudulently won the presidency in 2018...
Kainerugaba meanwhile publicly praises the Congolese M23 rebel leader Sultani Makenga who Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi believes is being supported by Kagame...
Chaired by Angola's president João Lourenço the summit brought together Congo-Kinshasa's Felix Tshisekedi Kenyatta Burundi's Evariste Ndayishimiye and Rwanda's foreign minister Vincent Biruta...
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Pledging more support for the 'Nairobi Peace Process' President William Ruto met with his counterpart Félix Tshisekedi on 21 November to underline Nairobi's economic and security interests in the success of the East African Community's intervention in easter Congo-Kinshasa...
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Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accuses Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame of backing the M23 militia as a means of looting minerals in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 63 No 14 Tshisekedi calls out Kagame on the M23 militia)...
This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...
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Relations between the two countries have improved since Félix Tshisekedi took over the presidency in Congo-K in January 2019 launching the joint Operation Shujaa late last year against the Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces rebels who have been blamed for thousands of killings in the Kivu provinces of eastern Congo-K and recent bomb attacks in Uganda...
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