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Vol 66 No 2

Published 24th January 2025


Congo-Kinshasa

Tshisekedi eyes a third term

Amid the security crisis in the Kivu provinces and geopolitical jockeying for Congo’s critical minerals, the President prioritises a constitutional change

Two key issues confront President Félix Tshisekedi in 2025 – to harness the spiralling global demand for the country’s cornucopia of critical minerals and to end the deepening conflict in the east with the M23 militia, and by extension its sponsor, Rwanda. Yet neither of these lead his political agenda. Instead, he is spending most of his political energy on a bid to reform the national constitution; a project that most people believe is aimed at securing him a third presidential term.

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