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Not just a farmer? Alexander Zingman, the Belarusian businessman close to Kabila and Israeli security companies

What Zimbabwe's honorary consul in Minsk has been up to in Harare, Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv is of great interest to security services in DRC and further afield. [...]

Published on 12/04/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Belarusian businessmen with colourful history elsewhere in Africa break into Ruto's machine

Business partners Oleg Vodchits and Alexander Zingman, who were previously active in Zimbabwe and DR Congo, are becoming quasi official middlemen in Kenya's new administration. They have also been questioned in the DRC over their ties to that country's former president, Joseph Kabila.

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François Beya heading to Paris to be treated at the American Hospital

The former Congolese spymaster is due in the French capital at the end of the week. His release from custody is the result of a long plea made by the Beya clan along with African and Western foreign ministries.

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Minsk gets by with help from African clients as relations with Europe deteriorate

Belarus is faced with increasingly severe European and US sanctions for dumping migrants on Poland's borders, but is able to defy the EU because it has Russia's active support and because of its numerous arms and agricultural machinery contracts in Africa.

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Spotlight | DRC
Why did Belarusian businessman Zingman accompany Kabila to Abu Dhabi?

Congolese intelligence services had good reason to be suspicious about Alexander Zingman's relationship with the ex-president.

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2021

Alexander Zingman, seated next to Joseph Kabila.

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GardaWorld picks ex-ambassador André Kapanga to break into Congo

To comply with Congolese legislation which requires subcontracting companies to team up with a local partner, Canadian security firm GardaWorld has hired former diplomat André Kapanga.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 11.06.2021

DRC, France
DGSE and DRC intelligence chiefs bond on sidelines of Macron-Tshisekedi meet

While in Paris to attend the French summit on African financing on 18 May, the DRC's top intelligence staff met with their French counterparts to further strengthen security cooperation between the two.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 25.05.2021

French President Emmanuel Macron greets Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi.

In Focus | DRC
Mossad director Yossi Cohen's very personal diplomacy

President Félix Tshisekedi's overreaction to Belarusian businessman Alexander Zingman's visit to the country last month stems from an earlier, largely unreported, episode: three trips to Kinshasa made by Yossi Cohen, head of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 19.04.2021

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How Congolese intelligence laid their hands on Belarusian businessman Alexander Zingman

Africa Intelligence has pieced together the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the businessman Alexander Zingman, who is reputed to have close ties with the government in Minsk.

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Behind the scenes of Tshisekedi's Qatar trip

During a lightning visit to Qatar, the Congolese leader tried to play on the competition between Doha and Abu Dhabi to secure projects.

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi was received on March 29, 2021 by the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.

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Kabila allies lose their diplomatic passports

Over the last month, the Tshisekedi government has revoked the diplomatic passports of several Kabila allies. First in the firing was the ex-ANR chief, Kaalev Mutond.

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Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence

In contrast to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, who cut military and intelligence ties with the West, Félix Tshisekedi has reopened channels of cooperation on security with Paris, Brussels and Washington to soften the impact of the imminent withdrawal of the [.

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DRC President Félix Tshisekedi at Paris Peace Forum, November 12, 2019.

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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
Not just a farmer? Alexander Zingman, the Belarusian businessman close to Kabila and Israeli security companies

Spotlight | Kenya
Belarusian businessmen with colourful history elsewhere in Africa break into Ruto's machine

DRC
François Beya heading to Paris to be treated at the American Hospital

Spotlight | Africa, Belarus
Minsk gets by with help from African clients as relations with Europe deteriorate

Spotlight | DRC
Why did Belarusian businessman Zingman accompany Kabila to Abu Dhabi?

DRC
GardaWorld picks ex-ambassador André Kapanga to break into Congo

DRC, France
DGSE and DRC intelligence chiefs bond on sidelines of Macron-Tshisekedi meet

In Focus | DRC
Mossad director Yossi Cohen's very personal diplomacy

DRC
How Congolese intelligence laid their hands on Belarusian businessman Alexander Zingman

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Behind the scenes of Tshisekedi's Qatar trip

DRC
Kabila allies lose their diplomatic passports

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Félix Tshisekedi pivots westwards on intelligence and defence