Vol 50 No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Some want a ceasefire, others insist on a solution, with personalities
as divisive as policies
The main rebel movement in eastern Congo has split, with one faction seeking a ceasefire with the government, the other promising to fight on. The more militant rebel,...
An independent commission to oversee elections turns out not
to be independent after all
Ghana's Electoral Commission organised an election in December that made Ghanaians proud. A similar commission for Cameroon has been resisted every step of the way by President Paul...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 2 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
- CHINA
Congo's rebel General Laurent Nkunda demands that the Kinshasa government cancels all China contracts
China’s billion dollar contracts in Congo are at the centre of a new propaganda front in rebel General Laurent Nkunda’s war against President Joseph Kabila’s government in Kinshasa....
Vol 49 No 25 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The government cannot afford another war – and probably could not win it, so it must talk to its nemesis
No one in the Kinshasa government wanted to talk to the rebel General Laurent Nkunda. So the talks which began in Nairobi on 8 December were a big...
Vol 49 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Low demand for minerals, especially from China, depresses mines and the whole economy
The world’s financial crisis threatens the mining deals that were meant to finance Congo-Kinshasa’s post-war recovery. The big mining companies are finding it hard to raise funds as...
The economy is faltering but the opposition is struggling and the dictator President is ill
Twenty-six years in power do not explain the grip on Cameroon of Paul Biya and his ethnic clique. The tight circle of praise-singers who marked the President's 26th...
The former first lady Germaine Ahidjo, widow of Cameroon's first President, recently admitted in a rare interview that her Muslim husband Ahmadou Ahidjo made mistakes during his 26...
Fighting starts again, renewing the involvement of France and Libya in a familiar, intractable conflict
Twelve government soldiers were killed on 13 November at Kabo in the north and the Central African Republic's long march towards peace halted again. The government of President...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
- CHINA
The International Monetary Fund has given Kinshasa a
stark choice: the Bretton Woods financial institutions or the Chinese.
The International Monetary Fund has given Kinshasa a stark choice: the Bretton Woods financial institutions or the Chinese. On a visit in September, an IMF delegation led by...
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda likes to compare his relentless
campaign against the Kinshasa government with the military resistance
of General Charles de Gaulle, 'the man who said no'. Taking the
parallels further, Nkunda has announced the formation of a provisional
government in eastern Congo and threatens to march on the Kabila
government. Without substantial back-up for the UN peacekeepers
and a turnaround by the government forces, Nkunda's wild ambitions
will face few obstacles.
The strategic blunders of both the Kinshasa government and the Kivu rebels leave Congo's government facing military defeat, the rebels facing political isolation and the people of Kivu...