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Congo-Kinshasa

Congo-Kinshasa

Population: 103.2m
GDP: $73.76bn
Debt: 11.1% of GDP (2024)

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Kasongo v CAMEC

Former England cricketer Phil Edmonds’s roller-coaster ride in Africa is going up again after a 19 September court ruling in Kinshasa recognising the legality of his Central Africa...


More fighting, more aid

Renewed fighting in the eastern provinces could help the government to qualify more quickly for aid

Theories abound about who is funding and arming the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) in the eastern provinces of Congo-Kinshasa. General Laurent Nk...


Nkunda in the hills

From a farmhouse in the Masisi Hills, dissident General Laurent Nkunda has told Africa Confidential that he is ready to fight to the bitter end to prevent what he says is an impend...


Kivu clashes ahead

Fears are growing of a confrontation between the forces of General Laurent Nkunda and the government's Forces Armées Congolaises in North Kivu Province next month. We hear t...


Dollars and mines

A new government-backed investigation into billions of dollars of mining contracts lacks openness and the time to do the job

The government's announcement last month that it will investigate about 60 mining contracts, agreed while civil wars raged from 1996 to 2003, risks disappointing everyone. Mining c...


A wolf in the Congo

Key to the contracts investigation in Congo-Kinshasa will be the role of the World Bank and the legacy of the anti-corruption policies pushed by its outgoing President, Paul Wolfow...


Kabila gets a rival

An unexpected blast from the past has hit President Joseph Kabila with the victory of Léon Kengo wa Dondo in the 11 May poll for Senate President. This makes the veteran pol...


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