The Alliance Fleuve Congo the civilian wing of the Rwandan-backed M23 militia Congo-Kinshasa was launched by its leader Corneille Nangaa in Nairobi in 2023 infuriating Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi...
Vol 66 No 4 |
- AFRICA
- MINING
This worried former US President Joe Biden whose administration persuaded Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi to block a proposed sale of Congolese mining assets from Kazakhstan's Eurasian Resources Group to a Chinese company...
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His putative opponent in Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi is flailing unable to respond to his government's loss of sovereignty over its eastern provinces and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe...
One of the frontrunners for that post is Peter Pham a former US Special Envoy to the Great Lakes who knows both Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Congo's Félix Tshisekedi well...
The failure to match rhetoric with sanctions against Rwanda may have disappointed President Félix Tshisekedi but it should not have come as a surprise...
However the refusal by Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi to attend an emergency summit called by Ruto as the current Chair of the EAC and a regional split between support for Rwanda and Congo-K suggests that the EAC vote will fragment (AC Vol 66 No 3 After seizing Goma Kigali's rebels head south)...
He then vowed to visit his ‘big brother' Félix Tshisekedi Congo-K's president and called Rwanda's Paul Kagame his ‘uncle' and a ‘man of peace' a reference to the collapsed peace talks between the two over the Kigali-backed M23 militia's incursions in eastern Congo-K...
Nangaa may be betting that growing Congolese opposition to President Félix Tshisekedi's efforts to finagle a third term in power could translate despite widespread Congolese hostility towards Rwanda into popular support for the AFC(AC Vol 66 No 2 Tshisekedi eyes a third term)...
DISPATCHES
Kenya's President William Ruto has telephoned Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame to invite then to an emergency summit in Nairobi on 29 January as M23 militia fighters backed by troops and artillery from neighbouring Rwanda seize control of Goma the capital of the mineral-rich Kivu-Nord province in eastern Congo-Kinshasa...
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However eyebrows were raised in March 2024 when the EU announced a ‘minerals-access' agreement with Rwanda despite Rwanda's limited mineral resources and Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi labelling the deal with Kigali as ‘a provocation' (AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...
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...