Vol 53 No 19 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA New York showdown 21st September 2012 Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame take their battles over the Kivu provinces to the UN General Assembly Congolese ministers have been energetically lobbying in New York ahead of a high-level meeting on Central Africa at the United Nations General Assembly which opens on 25 September....
Vol 53 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASA Kabila seeks succour abroad 7th September 2012 Discontent is widespread and the Francophone summit will do little to cover up the national cracks President Joseph Kabila Kabange got an unexpected present on 27 August when his French opposite number, François Hollande, said he would attend the 12-14 October Francophone summit...
Vol 53 No 18 | CONGO-KINSHASA Rebels and defections 7th September 2012 The Kivu crisis is diverting attention from other provinces where order is collapsing. In Katanga, two Republican Guard soldiers at Lubumbashi Airport were shot dead during squabbl...
Vol 53 No 16 | CONGO-KINSHASA M23 moves up 3rd August 2012 The rebels of the Mouvement du 23 mars in North Kivu Province were only 20 kilometres north of Goma and looked likely to attack the town, sources there told Africa Confidential as ...
Vol 53 No 15 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA M23 makes the running 19th July 2012 The mutineers hold the cards and are setting the agenda: they may strike Goma soon Although six governments signed an agreement in Addis Ababa on 15 July to promote security in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, rebels still threaten Goma, the base of the United Nations for...
Vol 53 No 15 | CONGO-KINSHASA Stifling dissent 19th July 2012 The murder of human rights campaigner Floribert Chebeya Bahizire in a Kinshasa police building in June 2010 has come back to haunt President Joseph Kabila and may now threaten his...
Vol 53 No 14 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASAUNITED NATIONS Rebels aim for Kivu secession 6th July 2012 Rwanda not only supports the M23 rebellion, it may be helping create a new state on its border with Congo After a protracted delay and much discussion, at the end of June the United Nations finally published its investigation into Rwandan involvement in the rebellion in eastern Congo-K...
Vol 53 No 14 | CONGO-KINSHASA Obama’s Congo law 6th July 2012 Rwanda’s actions in support of the east Congolese rebels, according to the evidence of the United Nations investigation, indicate a breach of a little-known United States law, the ...
Vol 53 No 13 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kigali’s hand in the Kivus 22nd June 2012 A UN report on Rwandan backing for mutineers sparks a diplomatic row in New York as the rebels gain ground As fighting escalates in eastern Congo-Kinshasa, pressure is mounting for the publication in full of a United Nations’ investigation into the links between Rwanda and a new militia...
Vol 53 No 13 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASAUNITED STATES US 'protecting' Rwanda 22nd June 2012 While Congo-Kinshasa’s Foreign Minister, Raymond Tshibanda N’tungamulongo, demanded that Rwanda immediately withdraw its support for militia in eastern Congo, Rwandan President Pau...