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United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi.
United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi. © Rashed Al-Mansoori/UAE's Ministry of Presidential Affairs/AFP

Spotlight
Abu Dhabi's grand gold and coltan designs in the DRC

Felix Tshisekedi's private office is radically overhauling the Congolese mining sector while putting the finishing touches to an unprecedented partnership with the United Arab Emirates, which has expressed an interest in a dozen mining permits.
LogoSubscribers only Mining 06.04.2023

Spotlight
Pressure mounts on CEMAC to relax foreign exchange rules

The main foreign investors in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa are alarmed by the regional body's foreign exchange regulations, considering them to be too tough. But despite intense lobbying, a relaxation of the rules looks unlikely, the central bank having set itself ambitious objectives for foreign currency reserves.

LogoSubscribers only Energy, Mining, Commodity traders 17.03.2023
Abbas Mahamat Tolli, governor of the Bank of Central African States, in Paris in 2018.

In Focus
As fight against M23 continues, Kigali and Kinshasa wage war of intelligence

Faced with Kinshasa's accusations of support for the M23 by Kigali, Rwandan intelligence has been documenting collusion between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel militias for several months. In this battle of narratives, each side is sharing their classified information with Western capitals.

LogoSubscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 13.03.2023
Intelligence reports are also used as weapons of war in the M23 crisis between Rwanda and the DRC.

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