Critics say that Congo has never taken seriously the requirements of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to improve governance, since France has been watching it more...

Asian companies have recently started negotiations to secure Cameroonian land to cultivate rice and other staples, but local civil society groups are already sounding warnings about the implications. At the end...

Several inconvenient facts are undermining President Joseph Kabila's ambitious 'zero tolerance' anti-corruption campaign. Recent reports highlight the failure of efforts to reform Congo's state and the continuing pillage...

Congo-Kinshasa's government has for ten years made no progress towards building a new dam to replace the underused hydropower stations at Inga on the Congo River. The existing...

Tenke Fungurume Mining: The world's largest, publicly-traded copper miner, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., and Lundin Mining Corporation control the fabled Tenke and Fungurume deposits. Uncertainty over...

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has spent nearly US$6 million on lawyers and lobbyists in the United States in the past three years. He wants Congress to pass legislation...

In the run-up to last year's United States' presidential election, the neo-conservative Michael Ledeen persuaded Democratic Party politicians (normally his sworn opponents) to support the 'Stop Vulture...

The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that...

Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo could soon be freed by the International Criminal Court. The ICC will meet on 7-14 September with governments that might host him:...

Both sides are claiming victory this month in the long-running negotiations on debt relief between the Kinshasa government and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Kinshasa has won promises...