A top ally of presidential candidate and Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi has been murdered in Kinshasa leading to speculation that would-be presidential candidates are being intimidated into not standing against President Félix Tshisekedi in the poll scheduled for December...

In one of the most egregious mining contracts signed so far by President Félix Tshisekedi's government he has endorsed the award of 'exclusive rights' over the country's entire artisanal gold tin tungsten and coltan (3T) production for the next 25 years to Primera Group Ltd a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company...

President Félix Tshisekedi referred Rwanda and the M23 to the ICC on 27 May...

Hopes that President Félix Tshisekedi's trip to China would result in a major minerals trading deal and the start of a renegotiation of existing mining deals with Chinese companies turned out to be way off the mark...

Papismedov is also said to be advising Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi through a company called REM Group...

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...