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Congo-Kinshasa
Population: 62.4mn.
GNI, $ : 8.6bn.
Debt: 10bn.
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The rebound of copper prices brings the return of Chinese miners, but the development of the huge ore-for infrastructure deal is not moving fast enough for President Joseph Kabila to reap the benefits in 2010 local or 2011 presidential polls.

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  • Vol 3 No 9
  • 01/07/2010

Take the diamonds and run

A fly-by-night Indian company registered in Hong Kong has packed its bags and disappeared after mining diamonds and not paying taxes for more than four years. Kasaï Oriental's Direction Provinciale des Recettes (DPR) and the parastatal diamond mi...

  • Vol 3 No 8
  • 01/06/2010

Private grief, state cash

Most of China’s massive investment in Congo comes not from private companies but from the state enterprises leading the charge to Kinshasa

  • Vol 3 No 8
  • 01/06/2010

Is what is good for Zijin good for Congo?

A storm is gathering over attempts by China’s Zijin Mining Group to buy Platmin Congo without prior approval from President Joseph Kabila’s government, despite generally good Beijing-Kinshasa relations. The row centres around Platmin Congo’s rights to a j...

  • Vol 3 No 6
  • 01/04/2010

More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa

President Kabila’s trip to Seoul yields another multibillion-dollar mining deal just as a midway review of China’s US$6 bn. contract is completed

  • Vol 3 No 5
  • 01/03/2010

How militias control the mines

Politicians, businessmen, the army and rebels are all caught up in the illegal mining and smuggling of minerals destined for lucrative Asian markets

  • Vol 3 No 5
  • 01/03/2010

Victory for the Kinshasa vultures

The execution of the US$6 billion ore-for-infrastructure deal originally signed in April 2008 between the Congolese state and Chinese companies China Railway Group and Sinohydro has suffered a setback. On 10 February, the Hong Kong High Court of Appeal de...

  • Vol 3 No 5
  • 01/03/2010

Monuc moves out

The United Nations announced in early March that it would begin to withdraw its peacekeeping mission, the Mission des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (Monuc) from Congo-Kinshasa. The first troop withdrawals are set for June with drawdown...

  • Vol 3 No 5
  • 01/03/2010

Roger Busima Kataala

Director General, Agence Congolaise des Travaux Grands, Congo-Kinshasa

  • Vol 3 No 4
  • 01/02/2010

Kinshasa’s missing millions

Evidence of grand corruption mounts in Beijing’s showcase $6 billion barter deal with the Kinshasa government

  • Vol 3 No 4
  • 01/02/2010

Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards

Agreed in November 2009, the second phase of infrastructure deals associated with the Sicomines joint venture is worth US$400 million and is expected to provide Congolese President Joseph Kabila with a list of projects about which he can boast in the ...

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