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	Congo-Kinshasa
Population:	103.19m
GDP:	$72.48bn
Debt:	11.1% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 66 No 8 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa

18th April 2025

President Trump’s special advisor is testing transactional diplomacy amid the conflict and the continent’s biggest reserves of critical minerals

Washington’s latest intervention in Kinshasa, led by Massad Fares Boulos, senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump, is disrupting the calculations of Congolese politicians and warlords. Boulos,...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

CONGO-KINSHASA
UNITED STATES

How Trump’s in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists

18th April 2025

After meeting the US President’s senior Africa envoy, President Tshisekedi has blocked millions of dollars’ worth of consultancy deals

After agreeing contracts with a string of K-Street lobby shops worth close to US$8 million with mandate to broker a mineral access deal with US President Donald Trump’s...

Vol 66 No 6 |

Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change

20th March 2025

The collapse of negotiations offers some stark choices as President Tshisekedi’s position weakens further

A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

M23 militia blocks peace talks until Brussels drops sanctions

19th March 2025

The proliferation of negotiations in the Kinshasa-Kigali war is derailing the prospect for a ceasefire

Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Southern African militaries call time on their ill-fated Kivu operation

17th March 2025

The failure of the SADC mission sounds alarms about the future of multilateral attempts to resolve conflict on the continent

By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

CONGO-KINSHASA

Kabila on manoeuvres as pressure on President Tshisekedi grows

10th March 2025

The former president senses a political opportunity amid growing alarm about the war in the east

Former President Joseph Kabila has re-emerged from the political wilderness, holding talks with opposition politicians about Congo-Kinshasa's political future and issuing a fierce denunciation of his successor, Félix...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

CONGO-KINSHASA

Tshisekedi inks lobbying deal to bag minerals deal with Trump

25th February 2025

Kinshasa enlists Washington advisors to gain US support for military and diplomatic engagement as M23 escalates war in eastern Congo

President Félix Tshisekedi is offering the United States access to Congo-Kinshasa’s critical minerals as a bargaining chip to get Washington’s support to force out M23 and Rwanda from...

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Vol 66 No 4 |

As Kinshasa fumes, Kigali plots its next move

14th February 2025

Regional officials seem resigned to Rwandan control over swathes of eastern Congo as the price of a ceasefire

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is moving pieces at will around the regional chessboard in this deadliest of tournaments. His putative opponent in Kinshasa, President Félix Tshisekedi, is flailing,...

Vol 66 No 4 |

Kinshasa cries foul on Arsenal FC

13th February 2025

Foreign minister Wagner quietly dropped in to London to undermine Rwanda’s sponsorship deal with a football club known for its prominent Labour supporters

Congo-Kinshasa Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner took a quiet detour to London on 9-11 February to persuade influential football fans to pressure President Paul Kagame to pull his...

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Vol 66 No 4 |

RWANDA
CONGO-KINSHASA

Silence in Addis as M23 takes Bukavu

18th February 2025

AU summit leaders show limited reaction to the fall of Kivu Sud’s largest city, despite rising concerns and calls for the rebel group to disarm

News of the fall of Bukavu, the largest city in Kivu Sud in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, over the weekend, while the region’s leaders gathered for the African Union summit...

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