Analysis

America's new Africa envoy is on his second tour of the continent, and the deal his pitch is built on isn't on the itinerary. The omission…

Sibéka was judicially dissolved in Belgium in December 2023. It still holds 20 percent of MIBA, the Congolese state diamond producer. That stake has outlived three…

Alert level: Elevated on institutions and corridors. Not on signature theater.

The first published economics of the Dilolo-Sakania concession settle what the state gets. They leave open who pays for it, and that answer is written in…

Hours apart, on the same instrument, the two capitals described different corridors. Neither was wrong. The gap between their theories is where the politics of this…

President Tshisekedi did not send a mining engineer to fix Gécamines. He sent the EY partner who sat on the cell negotiating the US deal, and…

The World Bank counts a legal framework among its two conditions for reaching financial close on Inga 3. Congolese deputies threw out a Grand Inga law…

Katanga is short 2,000 MW. Angola has the surplus. The capital wiring the two together answers to Luanda and the Gulf, not to Washington's treaty.

Both things are true, they are in the same release, and only one of them made the headlines. The localisation is real. So is the relocation…

Three consecutive US assessments have asked the DRC to disclose how its sovereign wealth fund is financed. The disclosure exists. It cites a decree the government…

The officials gave two reasons investors stay away. Both matter, and they are usually collapsed into one.

The Sanctions Architecture of the Washington Accords Faces Its First Courtroom Test with Joseph Kabila, sanctioned by the US Treasury on April 30, 2026 for material…