On 19 April Farmajo visited Kinshasa to try and persuade AU Chair and Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi to support him but he failed...
Vol 62 No 9 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Ilunga's ouster paved the way for President Félix Tshisekedi to form a government that he would dominate rather than Kabila after two years of an increasingly fraught coalition between the two...
Four of them hold vice-prime minister positions: President Félix Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); the Ensemble party of Moïse Katumbi governor of the mining hub of Katanga for eight years; ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC); and former President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD)...
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Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi who gave the ministry of environment a strategic role in his new government talks about trade-offs...
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Vol 62 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
These concerns are being raised as President Félix Tshisekedi appears to have wrested control of the National Assembly in Kinshasa away from his predecessor Joseph Kabila a close business ally of Gertler's (AC Vol 62 No 3 Félix tips the scales)...
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This month Egypt hosted Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi current chair of the AU as part of its efforts to increase contacts with Nile Basin states and IGAD members...
The SDR windfall coupled with decade-high copper prices will strengthen President Félix Tshisekedi's hand as he breaks away from a partnership with predecessor Joseph Kabila though there is no guarantee that ordinary Congolese will benefit from the cash injection...
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President Joe Biden had a lengthy discussion with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on 25 February to discuss the UN Security Council and developments in Ethiopia; and Vice-President Kamala Harris called Congo-Kinshasa President and African Union Chair Félix Tshisekedi on the same day and they also covered Tigray...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Félix Tshisekedi is steadily gaining ground in his bid to assume complete political control in Congo-Kinshasa but he is playing fast and loose with the constitution in the process (AC Vol 61 No 25 President nearer to power)...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
In comes Félix Tshisekedi President of Congo-Kinshasa to replace South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa as chair of the AU...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
This is the biggest boost that President Félix Tshisekedi has achieved so far in his year long campaign to claw back power over the economy and security from his predecessor Kabila...
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