Vol 53 No 22 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Uganda accused 2nd November 2012 A new UN report accuses both Uganda and Rwanda are running the M23 rebellion: foreign support for Kampala could soon be suspended The United Nations Group of Experts on eastern Congo-Kinshasa has indicted the Ugandan government as co-sponsor of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebellion in Kivu alongside Rwanda....
Vol 53 No 22 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA Bienvenido a Malabo 2nd November 2012 President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will host a summit for the 80 member states of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific group in Malabo on 13-14 December. Herman van Rompuy,...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | CONGO-KINSHASAASIABRIEFING Asian builders get close to Inga billions 30th October 2012 The Kinshasa government plans to begin discussions in November with three consortiums that are interested in the construction of a third hydroelectric dam capable of producing several thousand...
Vol 53 No 21 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE A poverty of strategy 19th October 2012 The President and his ministers respond to criticism of their economic policy by changing the goals but little else Stung by accusations that he and the governing elite have squandered the country’s oil wealth with nothing to show for their three decades in power, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso...
Vol 53 No 21 | CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE Borrowing big 19th October 2012 Building Congo-Brazzaville’s infrastructure, a more tangible goal than policy reform, has been taken to heart. It is overseen by the department for large projects, the Délégation générale des...
Vol 53 No 21 | RWANDAUGANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23’s other parent 19th October 2012 Indirect talks between the M23 rebels in North Kivu and the Kinshasa government are finally taking place in Uganda, sources in Kampala have told Africa Confidential. Yet this...
Vol 53 No 20 | CONGO-KINSHASAFRANCE La Francophonie 5th October 2012 Cries of disappointment resound from those expecting François Hollande’s election as President to make a decisive break with the clandestine commercial networks between Paris and its African...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINABRIEFING China Development Bank eyes the Grand Inga 2nd October 2012 China Development Bank has expressed its interest in backing Congo-Kinshasa’s colossal Grand Inga Dam project. The announcement was made during the visit of Zou Lixing, a CDB Vice-President,...
Vol 53 No 19 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA New York showdown 21st September 2012 Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame take their battles over the Kivu provinces to the UN General Assembly Congolese ministers have been energetically lobbying in New York ahead of a high-level meeting on Central Africa at the United Nations General Assembly which opens on 25 September....
Vol 53 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila seeks succour abroad 7th September 2012 Discontent is widespread and the Francophone summit will do little to cover up the national cracks President Joseph Kabila Kabange got an unexpected present on 27 August when his French opposite number, François Hollande, said he would attend the 12-14 October Francophone summit in...