Vol 1 (AAC) No 7 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINA Reviews and renegotiations, again 7th November 2008 Contracts are once again revised in Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa's Commission Ministérielle Chargée de la Revisitation des Contrats Miniers has revised the terms of China's biggest contract in Congo-Kinshasa, signed with the joint venture Sicomines, as part of a wider...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 6 | EQUATORIAL GUINEACHINA Not working out 7th November 2008 The Chinese face labour problems all over Africa When China evacuated 400 construction workers from Mongomo in Equatorial Guinea in early April, it marked the culmination of a labour dispute with a difference. In several African countries, notably Zambia...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINALATIN AMERICA Number crunching 6th November 2008 Is there Chinese corruption afoot in Congo-Kinshasa? Beijing's multi-billion dollar plans for Congo-Kinshasa are hitting new obstacles as questions are being asked about the transparency of the new deals and the behaviour of Chinese companies on the ground....
Vol 1 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA More policing of the peacekeepers 6th November 2008 Indian soldiers are being accused of not knowing where their loyalties lie Indian peacekeepers in the United Nations' troubled mission in Congo-Kinshasa face a new investigation - this time into claims that a senior officer has publicly declared his support for Tutsi rebels....
Vol 1 (AAC) No 8 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA Unravelling the UN investigation 6th November 2008 Indian troops based in the North Kivu province are being accused of an array of crimes Confidential reports by the United Nations contain 44 allegations against the Indian battalion based in Congo-Kinshasa's North Kivu province and known as INDBATT. The main report, dated 7 February 2008, describes...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 8 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA Probing the Peacekeepers 6th November 2008 The Indian government better hope that reports of their troops' misdeeds are unfounded Three Indian officers'would not be spared' if they were found to have smuggled gold while serving with the United Nations in Congo-Kinshasa, India's Defence Minister A. K. Antony said after ordering...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 4 | CHADSUDANCHINA Year of the rat 6th November 2008 The Chinese government has been arming two archenemies, the governments of Chad and Sudan, who are in effect at war Chinese peacekeepers in Southern Sudan have been awarded United Nations Peacekeeping Medals two months early to coincide with the Lunar New Year Spring Festival, celebrated on 7 February. Events in Chad...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 4 | GABON Jean Ping 6th November 2008 African Union Chairperson and Gabon's Foreign Affairs Minister The career of Gabon’s consummate diplomat owes its success less to the impact he made as President of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2004-05 than his accomplishments as head...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIA Blue helmets, red faces 5th November 2008 Investigations into sexual abuse charges are to get underway soon India's defence minister A. K. Antony has ordered 'prompt and time-bound' investigations into charges of child sexual abuse by 60 of its soldiers deployed to the Mission des Nations Unies en...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINA Ambitious investments 3rd November 2008 Chinese interests are to help draw up a national development plan for Congo-Kinshasa China's activities in Congo-Kinshasa began with mining, moved into infrastructure and are now more ambitious still: they are diversifying into national development planning. Relations were strengthened by President Joseph Kabila's visit for...