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 2 No 4
February 2009

Twixt Beijing and the IMF

China's investment and production plans face a crisis as Kinshasa's foreign reserves nosedive

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

Chinese money is now a key target for United States' FG Hemisphere Associates LLC, which wants to reclaim a debt of US$104 million owed by Congo-Kinshasa. FG Hemisphere is widely known as one of the leading 'vulture funds' and was created by former Mor...

Vol 2 No 2
December 2008

Nkunda's anti-Beijing card

Congo's rebel General Laurent Nkunda demands that the Kinshasa government cancels all China contracts

Vol 2 No 1
November 2008

Washington wants the details

The International Monetary Fund has given Kinshasa a stark choice: the Bretton Woods financial institutions or the Chinese.

Vol 1 No 11
September 2008

Ambitious investments

Chinese interests are to help draw up a national development plan for Congo-Kinshasa

Vol 1 No 10
August 2008

Blue helmets, red faces

Investigations into sexual abuse charges are to get underway soon

Vol 1 No 9
July 2008

Number crunching

Is there Chinese corruption afoot in Congo-Kinshasa?

Vol 1 No 9
July 2008

More policing of the peacekeepers

Indian soldiers are being accused of not knowing where their loyalties lie

Vol 1 No 8
June 2008

Unravelling the UN investigation

Indian troops based in the North Kivu province are being accused of an array of crimes

Vol 1 No 8
June 2008

Probing the Peacekeepers

The Indian government better hope that reports of their troops' misdeeds are unfounded

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