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Why IMF won't sign on dotted line with Tshisekedi

His neighbour Sassou N'Guesso recently secured $450 million, but the Congolese president is still failing to meet the conditions set by the IMF for a resumption of loans to the country. [...]

Published on 24/07/2019 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Gécamines minor reshuffle means major loss of influence for boss Albert Yuma

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US to get new embassy in Kinshasa after 12-year wait

Housed in the same offices for 60 years, the US diplomatic corps had reached an agreement for a new site with Joseph Kabila but he failed to keep his promise. It took Félix Tshisekedi's arrival to unblock the situation.

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NRGI, Carter Center, to help Kinshasa meet IMF mining transparency demands

The two NGOs will work with the DRC government in publishing mining contracts, in line with one of the IMF's conditions for providing new financial support.

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Gécamines cobalt exports to benefit from mining code moratorium

Despite promises to the contrary, the cobalt trading subsidiary currently being set up by state-owned Gécamines will benefit from the moratorium, enabling it to get round the provisions of the mining code and export unprocessed cobalt directly from the DRC.

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Joseph Kabila and Félix Tshisekedi at loggerheads over Dan Gertler affair

The cabinet meeting on 10 January was marked by a violent row between Félix Tshisekedi and allies of his coalition partner and predecessor, Joseph Kabila.

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Discreet negotiations with IMF

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Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

The Congolese transport minister Didier Mazenga is shortly due to pay a visit to Toulouse to discuss the purchase of Airbus A220s.

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Advisors queue up to lure back IMF

All the big-name advisory banks are laying siege to the presidential palace in the hope of winning the contract to advise the DRC on its relations with the IMF.

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DRC
Intelligence services play Joseph Kabila off against Felix Tshisekedi

With the former and current Congolese presidents in the midst of negotiating a new government, the ANR has demanded an audit of government expenditure since Felix Tshisekedi's election.

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President Felix Tshisekedi's mining in-crowd

While he continues to wrestle with his predecessor Joseph Kabila over the composition of his cabinet, Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi has surrounded himself with a team of mining advisors. Either already working for the president or on a more informal [.

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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

DRC
Why IMF won't sign on dotted line with Tshisekedi

DRC
Gécamines minor reshuffle means major loss of influence for boss Albert Yuma

DRC
US to get new embassy in Kinshasa after 12-year wait

DRC
NRGI, Carter Center, to help Kinshasa meet IMF mining transparency demands

DRC
Gécamines cobalt exports to benefit from mining code moratorium

DRC
Joseph Kabila and Félix Tshisekedi at loggerheads over Dan Gertler affair

DRC
Discreet negotiations with IMF

DRC
Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

DRC
Advisors queue up to lure back IMF

DRC
Intelligence services play Joseph Kabila off against Felix Tshisekedi

Spotlight | DRC
President Felix Tshisekedi's mining in-crowd

DRC
DSK offers Felix Tshisekedi his good offices

DRC
Passport contract up for grabs again?

DRC, United States
Mike Hammer, Felix Tshisekedi's fixer in Washington