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Mbala states that President Félix Tshisekedi's government ‘is eager to expand cooperation and to showcase the potential for economic development and investment'...
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Vol 65 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Shots rang out in the Gombe diplomatic enclave of Kinshasa early on 19 May when over 50 men in combat fatigues drove in convoy towards the residence of President Félix Tshisekedi known as the Palais de la Nation (Dispatches 21/5/24 A failed coup with an American twist)...
RUSSIA MAY GAIN IN CHAOTIC COUP AFTERMATH The manic blame game following the bizarre attack on President Félix Tshisekedi's house could hamper the United States' efforts to boost relations with Kinshasa and access the cornucopia of critical minerals in Congo-Kinshasa...
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The proposed deal is backed by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi whose government in 2022 signed a deal with Gertler in which it committed itself to lobbying for the lifting of sanctions against him (AC Vol 63 No 6 Tshisekedi helps Gertler in fight with US & Dispatches 18/4/23 Gertler's end)...
Kabila's successor as president Félix Tshisekedi inherited the friendship with Gertler and has been pushing the US to lift its sanctions (AC Vol 63 No 6 Tshisekedi helps Gertler in fight with US)...
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Vol 65 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Félix Tshisekedi's officials say that the Congolese army foiled an attempted coup in the early hours of Sunday morning after armed men attacked the house of Vital Kamerhe the economy minister and deputy prime minister and a close ally of the president...
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In the event the EAC's intervention stumbled and Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi called for its withdrawal...
President Félix Tshisekedi has been lobbying Washington to lift sanctions by the Treasury Department against Dan Gertler the Israeli mining magnate...
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Congo-K President Félix Tshisekedi cut short a visit to Europe following the attacks but not before getting French President Emmanuel Macron whom he met in Paris to again cite Rwanda for the M23 aggression and demand that it end its support for the militia group (Dispatches 21/2/24 Fighting escalates in the Kivus and western officials censure Kagame and AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...
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Vol 65 No 7 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Angolan foreign minister Tete António announced on 12 March that President Félix Tshisekedi will meet Rwanda's President Paul Kagame 'soon' but did not announce a date...
Also still to happen is for President Félix Tshisekedi to announce his new Prime Minister and for the Prime Minister then to form a government...
Three days after an angry meeting between Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on 16 February in Addis Ababa over the escalating regional conflict the European Union announced a memorandum of understanding with Kigali on the export of critical minerals for the energy transition...
He added that alongside the FDLR whose objective is to overthrow Rwanda's government both Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi and Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye 'have publicly stated their intention to support regime change in Rwanda'...
It is a measure of the danger posed by the conflict pitting Congolese and allied forces against the M23 militia that President Félix Tshisekedi spent the last week of February criss-crossing Africa and Europe meeting Angola's President João Lourenço on 27 February and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on the following day...