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Potential new rival to Rwanda rail link project

Central corridor: Burundi or Rwanda? © Indian Ocean Newsletter/Indigo publications

The viability of the Isaka-Kigali rail link project has been thrown into doubt by the new roadmap for the Central Corridor. [...] (449 words)

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Alexandre Micharine
China Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank
Didier Mazenga
Félix Tshisekedi
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Isack Kamwelwe
Jean-Bosco Ntunzwenimana
Joseph Kabila
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Russian Romanov heir's understated African interest

Best man at Gueorgui Romanov's wedding, businessman Konstantin Malofeev has also been running a small finance structure focused on Africa for the past year. [...]

BURUNDI TANZANIA Mining 17/12/2020

Coltan miners strain to reach Dar es-Salaam

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Burundi's mining companies have been unable to export their production, as regularly closed borders make it impossible for them to reach the port in Dar es-Salaam. [...]

Exporting 3T (tin, tantalum and tungsten) from Burundi. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications - 2020

DRC Mining 13/11/2020

Zoé Kabila aspires to transform Tanganyika into the new Haut-Katanga

Zoé Kabila, the brother of the ex-Congolese president, has grand ambitions for his term as governor of Tanganyika: to create the conditions for his province to become a DRC mining and industrial hub and thereby establish the family stronghold as a leading commercial player in the country. [...]

Zoé Kabila, governor of the Congolese province of Tanganyika. © Gouvernement du Tanganyika

WEST AFRICA DRC RUSSIA Business 28/05/2020

Billionaire Konstantin Malofeev turns his attentions to Africa

After getting involved in the pro-Russian Donbass region of Ukraine, the Russian tycoon Konstantin Malofeev has taken an interest in Africa. He has donated two kit-set laboratories to the DRC to help the country fight the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]

Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. © Tsargrad/Youtube

BURUNDI DRC TANZANIA Infrastructures Politics 16/03/2020

Kigoma-Musongati-Kindu railroad project chugs forward

Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC are working out how to finance studies for the cross-border line that would allow freight and minerals to be exported by train via the port of Dar es Salaam. [...]

Railway projects between Tanzania, Burundi and DRC. © Indigo Publications

TANZANIA Infrastructures Business Document 17/01/2020

Rail projects heading for the buffers?

For all the hype, the future cross-border rail link projects are going to struggle to remain on track. [...]

Cross-border rail projects between Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. © Indigo Publications

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DRC 02/07/2019

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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DRC Politics 30/01/2019

Felix Tshisekedi treads fine line to keep Kabila clan at bay

Though he enjoys the stature of an opponent of Joseph Kabila's regime, Felix Tshisekedi (aka ‘Fatshi') won the presidential election on 30 December at the price of an implicit understanding with his former adversaries. With a minority in the National [. [...]

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Jean-Bosco Ntunzwenimana
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