The Kabila connection is a useful talking point for President Félix Tshisekedi whose government announced that it would cancel the contract in 2020...
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Vol 67 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Felix Tshisekedi announced it as he lobbies for a third term...
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President Félix Tshisekedi is using Kinshasa's presidency of the UN Security Council (UNSC) in July to press for an international legal framework to block the trade in conflict minerals smuggled out of eastern Congo-Kinshasa...
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Officials in President Félix Tshisekedi's government are increasingly frustrated by the flow of sophisticated Chinese-made weapons sold to Rwanda then handed over to the Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) militia fighting Congolese forces in the Kivu provinces...
Such support for President Félix Tshisekedi's government in Kinshasa fitted with China's investments in Congo mining industry...
Vol 67 No 12 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Felix Tshisekedi who is midway through his second term says the rebel bid for secession in vast swathes of Kivu-Nord and Kivu-Sud means it would be ‘impossible' to hold presidential elections in 2028...
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HRW says that the occupation started on 10 December just days after Rwandan and Congo-K presidents Paul Kagame and Félix Tshisekedi signed a ceasefire and peace deal as part of the Washington Accords...
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Vol 67 No 10 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Félix Tshisekedi's suggestions that he could push for a third term and that the 2028 general elections could be delayed by the continued conflict in eastern Congo-Kinshasa are a thinly veiled attempt to gauge international public opinion...
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That is a public relations coup for Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi...
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Vol 67 No 9 |
- UNITED NATIONS
When Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi raised the issue Faye replied that Sall's UN ambitions were not his concern...
Vol 67 No 8 |
- FRANCOPHONIE
Battling the Rwanda-backed M23 forces in the east Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi was determined to field a challenger and in February his government nominated Juliana Amato Lumumba a former culture minister and daughter of murdered independence leader Patrice Lumumba...
