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news from Congo-Kinshasa
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Found 27 articles.
- 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 ...
- Vol 2 No 11
- 01/09/2009
The great South Korean commercial offensive
The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that South Korea's Berea International had won a US$225 million contract to bu...
- Vol 2 No 10
- 01/08/2009
Gagner-gagner - they claim
Both sides are claiming victory this month in the long-running negotiations on debt relief between the Kinshasa government and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Kinshasa has won promises of substantive and rapid relief on some US$11 b...
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