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Spotlight | DRC
DRC confuses Taiwan for China as it seeks to repay 30-year-old loan

Félix Tshisekedi.
Félix Tshisekedi. © Reuters
Félix Tshisekedi is currently negotiating the rescheduling of a $57m loan from Taiwan's Exim-Bank which dates back to the Mobutu era. The problem is that until very recently the Congolese government thought it was negotiating with China, the country's biggest donor, rather than Taiwan... [...]
Published on 11.06.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes
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Congolese lithium capital Manono set to come under Kabila clan control

After having reigned over Congo-K for the last 22 years, the Kabila family needs to invent a new future for itself. Having left the presidential throne to Felix Tshisekedi in January, the clan has been working for the last two months on plans to fall back on its native Tanganyika province in eastern Congo-K, and, more specifically, to the town of Manono, which, in recent years, has become the capital of African lithium prospecting.

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