Vol 45 No 10 | CONGO-KINSHASAUNITED KINGDOM Diamond defamation 14th May 2004 Oryx Natural Resources has finally lost the legal battle to clear its name and dropped its libel action against the London daily The Independent, which accused the company...
Vol 45 No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASA Future shock 30th April 2004 The new integrated army, created to solve political problems, is not much use for military tasks such as peacekeeping. Its First Brigade, whose 190 Belgian and twelve French...
Vol 45 No 7 | CONGO-KINSHASA To plot or not 2nd April 2004 Politicians in the power-sharing government fall out over coup allegations Facts are sacred and thin on the ground for Congolese struggling to make sense of what lay behind three hours of shooting in Kinshasa in the early hours...
Vol 45 No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASA Ruberwa's rift 19th March 2004 A dangerous rift has opened at the top of the transitional government, between President Joseph Kabila and Azarias Ruberwa, one of the four vice-presidents and leader of the...
Vol 45 No 5 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Peace dividend 5th March 2004 President Mbeki's diplomatic forays into Congo have a sound commercial base South Africa's dreams of harnessing Congo-Kinshasa's massive hydro-electric resources to power most of Southern Africa are moving towards reality. The first aim for Eskom, SA's state-owned power utility,...
Vol 45 No 5 | CONGO-KINSHASA Papa Wemba's big band 5th March 2004 The King of Rumba Rock's troubles are rebounding on other Congolese musicians. Jeany Ibela-Ibel, President of the Congolese artists' union, complains that European immigration authorities are victimising...
Vol 44 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASA Peace or bust 5th December 2003 Congolese desperation – not great leaders or Western generosity – is forcing change Two heavily armed factions within Congo's transitional power-sharing government came to blows on the night of 17 November. Officers of President Joseph Kabila's Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR,...
Vol 44 No 24 | CONGO-KINSHASA After the war economy 5th December 2003 Kinshasa has high hopes of the World Bank consultative group meeting in Paris on 17-18 December, where eight Congolese ministers will argue for more aid to consolidate the...
Vol 44 No 23 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Surrender! 21st November 2003 Rwandan intelligence scores full marks for orchestrating the surrender of Hutu rebel leader Paul Rwarakabije on 16 November and wrongfooting both the United Nations and President Joseph Kabila's...
Vol 44 No 21 | CONGO-KINSHASA Cutting-edge diplomacy 24th October 2003 President Joseph Kabila's planned meeting with United States President George Bush on 5 November is a personal triumph for Israeli diamond trader and Congo's ambassador at large Dan...