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Pam Golding facilitates African kleptocrats’ money laundering

Analysis Khadija Sharife & Mark Anderson - 21 Feb 2020

Government must take steps to clean up the country’s dirty real estate market, which has long offered a safe haven for criminals

Africa’s ‘dinosaurs’ are dying out

Africa Alex Vines - 3 Jan 2020

Countries in political transition have very little time in which to deliver socioeconomic and political change

Dictators expand their toolbox

Africa Nic Cheeseman & Brian Klaas - 27 Sep 2019

An update of How to Rig an Election is a guide to new strategies used by authoritarian leaders to stay in power

DRC authorities ban Kinshasa rallies over tensions

Africa Agency - 22 Jul 2019

Tshisekedi was elected in December to replace Kabila who presided over sub-Saharan Africa's biggest country for nearly two decades

Guinea’s Condé eyes third term

Africa Samira Sawlani - 26 Apr 2019

Even as Algeria and Sudan have rid themselves of their long-standing leaders, Guinea may be about to create a new president-for-life

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Losers in Africa’s presidential elections need to be more strategic

Article Patrick Hajayandi - 25 Apr 2019

The parties should focus on winning seats in Parliament and at other levels of government

Kabila co-opts the opposition to prolong a family dynasty

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 30 Jan 2019

The DRC’s former president has his eye on a long-term goal — to become of member of the Class of 2034 of lifelong leaders

Kabila urges unity on eve of new president’s inauguration

Africa Agency - 24 Jan 2019

In his first speech since the December 30 presidential election, Kabila said he was 'calling for a grand coalition of all the progressive forces'

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DRC court confirms Tshisekedi winner of disputed presidential election

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 20 Jan 2019

Announcing the final results of the much-delayed poll, the Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority

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Voting data points to massive fraud in DRC presidential election

Africa Mashadi Kekana - 16 Jan 2019

Analysis of different sets of data have cast a shadow over the country’s election results announced last week

DRC court to examine election appeal from Tuesday

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 15 Jan 2019

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Constitutional Court said it would start hearing on Tuesday an appeal against the presidential election results

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DRC presidential runner-up asks court to cancel result

Africa Samir Tounsi - 13 Jan 2019

Martin Fayulu has appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the provisional result which awarded victory to his opposition rival Felix Tshisekedi

Editorial: Big-man politics again blots out the Congolese

Article Editorial - 11 Jan 2019

The DRC is a complex, challenging political quagmire

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A Tshisekedi finally at DRC’s helm

Africa Samir Tounsi - 11 Jan 2019

But there are fears that Felix has been co-opted by Joseph Kabila, who controls the electoral commission

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DRC Catholic Church says vote result ‘does not reflect’ polling station data

Africa Agency - 10 Jan 2019

France's top diplomat says the Church's count indicated Felix Tshisekedi's opposition rival Martin Fayulu had actually won

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