Congo-Kinshasa

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Congo-Kinshasa
Population:	62.4mn.
GNI, $ :	8.6bn.
Debt:	10bn.
Overview:	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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Found 44 articles.

Vol 3 No 5
March 2010

Roger Busima Kataala

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

Vol 3 No 4
February 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
February 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 3 No 4
February 2010

Donald Kaberuka

President, African Development Bank

Vol 3 No 4
February 2010

Evariste Boshab

President, National Assembly, Congo-Kinshasa

Vol 2 No 11
September 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
August 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...

Vol 2 No 8
June 2009

Tug of war

The IMF has scored some points in its battle with China over the mining-for-infrastructure deal but a final decision is unlikely before year's end

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

Debt, markets and Beijing

All three sides - the IMF, Kinshasa and Beijing - say there is little room for compromise on this month's debt relief talks

Vol 2 No 6
April 2009

Big numbers on Congo's telecoms projects

China's Huawei and China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation are working on two information technology projects for Congo-Kinshasa's Ministère des Postes, Téléphones et Télécommunications (MPTT, P...

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