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DRC
Fortunat Biselele and Theophas Mahuku, the men behind miner Sud South's dizzying rise

The success of Sud South, which last year signed a lucrative contract with the mining province of Lualaba, is down to its discreet ties with Theophas Mahuku a friend of the Kabila family, and with President Felix Tshisekedi's close adviser, Fortunat Biseleleand. [...]

Published on 27/09/2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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DRC
Eddy Kioni
European Union
Felix Tshisekedi
Fifi Masuka Saini
Fortunat Biselele
Générale Industrielle et Commerciale du Congo
Sud South
Theophas Mahuku
USAID
Zoe Kabila

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Pretoria's thwarted plans for the DRC

After the SADC summit, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa remains wary of his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi, who has distanced himself from Pretoria in favour of new countries like Kenya.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) shaking hands with the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi (R) during the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 42nd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Kinshasa, DRC, 17 August 2022.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on 25 July.

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Bolloré, Liquid Telecom, DMT to help Lualaba with mining traceability

The Congolese company Sud South has won the contract to manage the future Musompo mining trading centre in Lualaba province. It has forged partnerships with better-known specialist companies to help it carry out its task.

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Félix Tshisekedi's diplomacy: great international expectations but with neither troops nor resources

In Berlin today at the invitation of Angela Merkel, the DRC president is using every available means to pull his country out of diplomatic isolation. Rather than relying on a diplomatic corps that was largely inherited from his predecessor Joseph Kabila, he has preferred to rely on a group of loyalists from within the presidency.

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi receiving his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on June 25, 2021.

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Fifi Masuka Saini
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Générale Industrielle et Commerciale du Congo
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