Vol 49 No 10 | CONGO-KINSHASA Under cover 9th May 2008 The halting of United Nations' investigations into allegations of abuses by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo-Kinshasa raises new questions about UN accountability and the legal responsibilities...
Vol 49 No 8 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASAOIL AND GAS Lake Albert and the gushers 11th April 2008 Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away,...
Vol 49 No 7 | CONGO-KINSHASA The spirit moves them 28th March 2008 Kinshasa futilely and violently tries to quash the longstanding BDK separatist threat in the west, leaving scores of people dead Once again, the political-religious cult Bundu dia Kongo has set off a bloody conflict in the province of Bas-Congo, near the mouth of the Congo River. The United...
Vol 49 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Down the mines 14th March 2008 The government wants to sort out its mining concessions and the investors are nervous At last, the bargaining can begin. The government has given the private mining companies details of the terms of the new and renewed contracts that they will be...
Vol 49 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Goma's ghosts 14th March 2008 Peace has not broken out in the Kivus yet. In Goma diplomats are trying to organise follow-up meetings to the accord signed last month between the Congolese government,...
Vol 49 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Déjà Kivu 1st February 2008 The latest peace deal for eastern Congo may end up like its predecessors, in renewed regional wars A ceasefire in Congo's eastern war was agreed on 23 January by the Kinshasa government and armed factions from North and South Kivu after a three-week conference in...
Vol 49 No 3 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs 1st February 2008 President Joseph Kabila, by an order dated 12 January, massively increased his economic power and political patronage. He replaced the heads of 37 state enterprises with his own...
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...
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 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....