Vol 44 No 13 | CONGO-KINSHASA Nobody's moving 27th June 2003 A temporary calm in Ituri does not mean progress towards national peace 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...
Vol 44 No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASA Battle for Bunia 13th June 2003 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...
Vol 44 No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASA Un-rapid reaction 30th May 2003 Fighting is worsening in the north-eastern Ituri Province but plans for a 2,000-strong rapid reaction force are embroiled in United Nations and European Union bureaucracy. The prop...
Vol 44 No 9 | UGANDACONGO-KINSHASA Drummed out 2nd May 2003 Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeropla...
Vol 44 No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASA Wood for the trees 2nd May 2003 Mystery surrounds the fate of a proposed US$50 million investment in the Shikolobwe concession in Katanga, one of the world's richest deposits of copper, cobalt and uranium. The Un...
Vol 44 No 8 | SOUTH AFRICACONGO-KINSHASA Deeper and deeper 18th April 2003 President Mbeki is betting his diplomatic credibility on success in brokering peace in Congo and Burundi South Africa is about to raise the stakes by committing three battalions for peacekeeping duties in Burundi and eastern Congo, having hosted a succession of summits to persuade war...
Vol 44 No 2 | CONGO-KINSHASA Cable controversy 24th January 2003 The worsening fighting in the Ituri region of eastern Congo-Kinshasa is undermining the peace accords signed by Rwanda and Uganda with the Kinshasa government, according to diploma...
Vol 43 No 25 | BURUNDICONGO-KINSHASA Two helpings of peace 20th December 2002 Peace deals for both Congo-Kinshasa and Burundi, brokered by South Africa, will be tested early in 2003. The Congo deal, signed in Pretoria on 17 December, proposes a government of...
Vol 43 No 23 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila reacts 22nd November 2002 President Joseph Kabila has again outplayed his regional rivals, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda's General Paul Kagame, in the diplomatic arena.