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Congo-Kinshasa

Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 103.2m
GDP: $73.76bn
Debt: 11.1% of GDP (2024)

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Donald Kaberuka

President, African Development Bank

As President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka received red-carpet treatment on his visit to China on 3-6 February. A troop of dignitaries turned out to welcome...


Evariste Boshab

President, National Assembly, Congo-Kinshasa

Evariste Boshab, Secretary General of the ruling Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie, has become an essential contact for Congo-courting diplomats, particularly those from Asia’s...


A storm in the fish ponds

What seemed to start as a local quarrel has turned into a new challenge to the beleaguered Congolese state

Small rows can end in great slaughter and the Congolese government is powerless to limit it. A humanitarian catastrophe and a political uprising started around some fish ponds...


The Experts win support

Resisting pressure to overlook those breaking the arms embargo, the UNSC’s reaction to a hard-hitting investigation is suprisingly robust

The United Nations Security Council has resisted heavy pressure to reject the hard-hitting UN Panel of Experts' Report(i) on violations, by African and Western states, of the embargo...


Throwing out the neighbours

A spree of mutual expulsions disguises long-standing economic disputes

The two big neighbours have been busily expelling each others' nationals and the resulting tension hides their disagreements about oil, diamonds and the hoped-for electric power from a...


Mines, dollars and dams

A decade after the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, the Kinshasa government is still plagued by grand corruption and its reform efforts look hollow

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...


Dam intrigues

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...


Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines

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...


Sweet freedom

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:...


Eastern foes at war again

Foreign attempts to strengthen the army and police, led by Monuc and the EU, are inchoate, ineffective and under-funded

Things are getting worse in eastern Congo, and everyone except the government and the United Nations Mission in Congo, Monuc, acknowledges it. Recent operations by the Congolese army,...


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