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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 4 No 1
  •  November 2010

Vital Kamerhe

Former Speaker, National Assembly

  • Vol 3 No 12
  •  October 2010

Cooperating with Cohydro

Korea National Oil Corporation is discussing a potential strategic partnership with the parastatal Congolaise des Hydrocarbures. KNOC President Kang Young-won and Cohydro Chairman Séraphin Tshibambe Ndjibu were in talks in Kinshasa on 22-23 September.

  • Vol 3 No 11
  •  September 2010

Aiming high

China will soon surge ahead to become Congo's leading partner but not before sorting out employment and artisanal mining issues

  • Vol 3 No 9
  •  July 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
  •  June 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
  •  June 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
  •  April 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
  •  March 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
  •  March 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
  •  March 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...

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