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Kinshasa seeks advisors on revising 'infrastructure for minerals' and other China deals

Felix Tshisekedi's inner circle, keen to renegotiate contracts signed with Beijing under ex-president Joseph Kabila, has consulted numerous law firms and advisory banks in what looks set to be a Herculean task. [...]

Published on 14/06/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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How Washington pushed Tshisekedi to renegotiate Kabila's China contracts

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi (left) during a meeting with Mike Pompeo, the Trump administration's Secretary of State in Washington, on 3 March 2020.

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Global Technologies chief holds quiet meeting with Tshisekedi in Paris

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi met with Global Technologies CEO Jean-Paul Steinitz.

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CEO Global Technologies Jean-Paul Steinitz.

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Tshisekedi seeks to renegotiate Kabila-era deals with China

The Congolese government is trying to renegotiate contracts signed with Beijing during the long reign of former president Joseph Kabila. Some of their terms are now deemed contrary to the national interest.

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DRC's President Felix Tshisekedi meets with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kinshasa.

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Beijing beckons to Tshisekedi

Xi Jinping's regime has invited the Congolese head of state to visit Beijing later this spring to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries. The invitation comes as Washington, which has made a dramatic return to the DRC since the election of Felix Tshisekedi, is closely scrutinizing Chinese activity in the country.

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Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese-Congolese joint venture Sicomines

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Erik Prince, head of Frontier Services Group.

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Sicomines: the EITI aims to find out if the DRC is able to pay its debt to China

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will try to quickly discover if the mineral deposits mined by Sino-Congolese joint venture Sicomines are sufficent to enable the DRC to repay China's investment costs in the venture or if China should be given free access to other sites, as the agreement at the origin of the project provides.

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A copper and cobalt mine operated by Sicomines in the DRC.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

DRC
Kinshasa seeks advisors on revising 'infrastructure for minerals' and other China deals

DRC
Public debt has nearly doubled under Tshisekedi

DRC
Global Sovereign Advisory acts as sherpa for Tshisekedi in Washington

DRC
Transport company SCTP, a social ticking time bomb

South Africa
Metorex wins battle against its ex-director of operations

China, DRC, United States
How Washington pushed Tshisekedi to renegotiate Kabila's China contracts

DRC, France
Global Technologies chief holds quiet meeting with Tshisekedi in Paris

Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi seeks to renegotiate Kabila-era deals with China

China, DRC
Beijing beckons to Tshisekedi

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Macron and Biden want to force China to play ball on African debt

DRC
Erik Prince wins key security contract from Chinese-Congolese joint venture Sicomines

DRC
Sicomines: the EITI aims to find out if the DRC is able to pay its debt to China