Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accuses Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame of backing the M23 militia as a means of looting minerals in eastern Congo-K (AC Vol 63 No 14 Tshisekedi calls out Kagame on the M23 militia)...

This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...

Trust between the Congolese and Rwandan Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame has slumped to its lowest ebb for three years...

But all of Glencore's business in Congo-K is centred on Gertler a friend of former President Joseph Kabila and now on good terms with President Félix Tshisekedi's administration...

New riftKinshasa's accusation against Kigali not only detracts from Nairobi's joint regional force initiative but opens a new breach between President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame who deployed troops into eastern Congo-K with Kinshasa's permission in 2019...

The success or failure of the talks will be likely to impact on whether President Félix Tshisekedi's new demobilisation programme for armed groups will be taken seriously by donors whom the President is lobbying for funds...

In a dramatic about-turn President Félix Tshisekedi is offering to help one of his predecessor's closest business allies currently under United States sanctions for obtaining assets in Congo-Kinshasa via grand corruption...

Reacting to the 24 February settlement between Gertler and Congo-K Congo n'est pas à vendre demanded that the agreement be published and pointed out that it was 'negotiated with total secrecy at the level of the presidency …We want to be reassured that the new regime [of President Félix Tshisekedi] does not perpetuate the cycle of corruption of his predecessors...

Three weeks after President Félix Tshisekedi ordered the arrest of his senior security advisor François Beya for plotting a coup a shroud of silence still surrounds the affair...

Kagame has said that neither Museveni nor Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi consulted him before Ugandan troops re-entered Ituri and Kivu-Nord provinces last year ostensibly to attack ADF units there...