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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Vol 63 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Trust between the Congolese and Rwandan Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame has slumped to its lowest ebb for three years...
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Vol 63 No 13 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
But all of Glencore's business in Congo-K is centred on Gertler a friend of former President Joseph Kabila and now on good terms with President Félix Tshisekedi's administration...
New riftKinshasa's accusation against Kigali not only detracts from Nairobi's joint regional force initiative but opens a new breach between President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame who deployed troops into eastern Congo-K with Kinshasa's permission in 2019...
The success or failure of the talks will be likely to impact on whether President Félix Tshisekedi's new demobilisation programme for armed groups will be taken seriously by donors whom the President is lobbying for funds...
Vol 63 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
In a dramatic about-turn President Félix Tshisekedi is offering to help one of his predecessor's closest business allies currently under United States sanctions for obtaining assets in Congo-Kinshasa via grand corruption...
Vol 63 No 6 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Reacting to the 24 February settlement between Gertler and Congo-K Congo n'est pas à vendre demanded that the agreement be published and pointed out that it was 'negotiated with total secrecy at the level of the presidency …We want to be reassured that the new regime [of President Félix Tshisekedi] does not perpetuate the cycle of corruption of his predecessors...
