Having arrested the former head of late President Mobutu Sese Seko's feared Garde Civile, General Kpama Baramoto Kata, Belgium can't find a country willing to take him. Baramoto wa...

After weeks of denials, the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force is to stay in Congo's north-east Ituri district past its declared exit date of 1 September to assist Un...

Having given sanctuary to late President Mobutu Sese Seko, Morocco is maintaining close ties with Joseph Kabila, some of whose intelligence and close protection agents are being...

Congo's civil war was five years old on 2 August and the country's politicians claim it is all over (AC Vol 44 No 14). Few believe them. Bloody chaos in the east threatens the frag...

With first oil from the Chad-Cameroon pipeline set to reach Kribi port in September, this new source of revenue will come at a perfect time for President Paul Biya to seek re-elect...

The politicians missed the 30 June deadline for a new national government and army. However (under heavy United Nations' pressure) they stitched up a last-minute deal and the presi...

It is a measure of the uncertainty and wariness surrounding the Central African Republic's new government that the Mozambican leader explained to the world on 6 July that Bangui wa...

Congo-Kinshasa has briefly diverted the attention of the United Nations Security Council from its altercations over Iraq. Spurred into action by the stark contrast in kill rates mo...

Quarrelling over posts in a power-sharing government, pitting Kinshasa's proxies against those of Rwanda, reflects a similar struggle in eastern Congo where Kinshasa and Rwanda bac...