However eyebrows were raised in March 2024 when the EU announced a ‘minerals-access' agreement with Rwanda despite Rwanda's limited mineral resources and Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi labelling the deal with Kigali as ‘a provocation' (AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...
Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country's cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening conflict in the east with the M23 militia and by extension its sponsor Rwanda...
Congolese businessmen close to President Félix Tshisekedi are trying to negotiate a regime security and arms deal between Kinshasa and the remnants of the Wagner Group now under Pavel Prigozhin son of the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in a plane crash on 23 August 2023...
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Kinshasa has made similar accusations against the European Union which struck a minerals access agreement with Rwanda in early 2024 a move described as a ‘provocation' by Congo-K President Félix Tshisekedi (AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...
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The cancellation came just hours before the meeting between Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame was due to be held in Luanda on 15 December Instead Angolan President João Lourenço held a private meeting with Tshisekedi...
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Vol 65 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Both presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame were present – and he held lengthy private meetings with each (Dispatches 8/10/24 Macron fails to broker Kinshasa-Kigali talks at Francophone summit)...
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Following an informal summit with Presidents Félix Tshisekedi Hakainde Hichilema and João Lourenço on 4 December the White House pledged an additional US$600 million in financing for projects related to the Lobito Corridor the 1 300-kilometre railway line connecting the mineral and oil-rich parts of Angola Zambia and Congo-Kinshasa...
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Vol 65 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The ruling Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) is pushing ahead with plans to overhaul the national constitution as oppositionists it's a ruse to extend presidential term limits to keep President Félix Tshisekedi in office...
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' Hopes and fearsA big beneficiary of a second Trump term could be President Félix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa who is currently plotting a third-term project...
Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi and Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema were among the first African leaders on 6 November to congratulate Trump on his victory...
