President Félix Tshisekedi's government is demanding compensation which could force the bank to shut down its Congolese operations...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 62 No 24 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     The new government under President Félix Tshisekedi  which inherited a near empty treasury when it came to power in 2019  is struggling to finance an ambitious secondary school programme and shore up public health services to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and serial outbreaks of Ebola...
  The media consortium sets out in forensic detail how the Kabila family's deals worked and present his successor President Félix Tshisekedi with some stark choices (AC Vol 62 No 3  Félix tips the scales)...
	 
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	     Among the African presidents due to attend COP26 in Glasgow are Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari  Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...
	 
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	     But they also knew the Kasaïs were the fiefdom of these presidents' principal political opponent  Etienne Tshisekedi  President Félix Tshisekedi's father  who was from Kasaï Central  and his party  the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS)...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 62 No 21 | 
            - KENYA
- SOMALIA
	    ' This suggests that Nairobi sees a benefit in bringing in the AU  whose chairman Félix Tshisekedi has offered to mediate in the dispute...
	 
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	      In June  Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi  who hopes to bring Congo-K into the EAC  met Kagame in Goma to sign three agreements on cooperation on investment  taxation and tax evasion  as well as a memorandum on gold-mining...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     All this follows growing scrutiny of Chinese mining companies in Congo-Kinshasa by President Félix Tshisekedi's government...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 62 No 18 | 
            - RWANDA
- UGANDA
	     Diplomatic relations between Congo-K and Rwanda have improved since Félix Tshisekedi took office...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 62 No 15 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     Earlier this year  President Félix Tshisekedi wrested control of parliament and the security services from his predecessor Joseph Kabila (AC Vol 62 No 3  Félix tips the scales)...
	 
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	     In homage to that sentiment  President Félix Tshisekedi – also president of the AU – announced on 5 June that his country was withdrawing its candidacy to 'reinforce the unity of the continent and to preserve the climate of fraternity in central Africa'...