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How Kabila's ministers scuppered top-level Banana port negotiations

Without telling the head of state, Sylvestre Ilunga's government has okayed the extension of DP World's Banana port contract. [...]

Published on 09.07.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Alexandre Kayembe de Bampende
Cap pour le changement
Célestin Tunda Ya Kasende
Clément Kuete Nymi Bemuna
Didier Mazengu Mukanzu
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Jean Baudouin Mayo Manbeke
José Sele Yalaghuli
Joseph Kabila
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Kinshasa spends nearly $1m restoring relations with IMF

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Tshisekedi's plan to forge new majority could trip over the law

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DRC
DP World to return to Banana port negotiating table with Tshisekedi

The deepwater Banana port project, bogged down for months by the Covid-19 pandemic and tensions between President Félix Tshisekedi and ministers loyal to his predecessor Joseph Kabila, now looks like it might move forward by the end of the year.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 25.11.2020

Angola, UAE
Luanda left over a barrel as DP World steams to port victory

President Lourenço would have preferred a shipping company to take on Luanda's multipurpose terminal rather than DP World. But it finally resigned itself to choosing the Dubai-based port operator, which spared no expense to win its first major contract in southern Africa.

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DRC
Kabila and entourage work around US sanctions to win diplomatic immunity

After slamming Kabila's close entourage with sanctions, the US Department of State has been playing hot and cold with a court case aimed directly at the former Congolese president.

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DRC
Banana Port: Kabila's FCC plays another trick on Tshisekedi

Despite a series of meetings between Felix Tshisekedi's office and Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba's government, the deepwater Banana port project is still distilling discord within the top Congolese executive.

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DRC
Kabila supporters use new edition of mining code to deliver a fresh snub to President Tshisekedi

By republishing the Congolese mining code at the end of June with his ministry's interpretation of its contents and publicising the event in the media, mines minister Willy Kitobo has given a show of support for the former head of state rather than the existing one.

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DP World undeterred by Djibouti's latest legal ploy

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Tshisekedi's plan to forge new majority could trip over the law

DRC
DP World to return to Banana port negotiating table with Tshisekedi

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Luanda left over a barrel as DP World steams to port victory

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Kabila and entourage work around US sanctions to win diplomatic immunity

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Kabila supporters use new edition of mining code to deliver a fresh snub to President Tshisekedi

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