For the past 20 months, the Congo Research Group has documented the vast and eclectic business portfolio of Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his family. This report presents our conclusions, based almost entirely on legal documents. They own, either partially or wholly, more than

(The full report is here.) The DRC is at a crossroads. Having failed to carry out elections by the end of 2016, as required by the constitution, the government engaged in two separate rounds of negotiations, the first under the auspices of the African Union and the second brokered by

Herbert Weiss (Traduction: Anne-Marie Munzberg-Engel , Université de Georgetown) Cet article est le premier d’une série publiée par le Groupe d’Etude sur le Congo (GEC) au Centre de Coopération Internationale à New York University en réaction à un sondage effectué sur tout le territoire du Congo par le GEC et le

Depuis le 26 juin 2016 jusqu’à ce jour, l’Agence Nationale de Renseignement (ANR) de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) détient illégalement Rodrigue BINTENE MIMBO, agent de la Société BERCI SARL, une société à responsabilité limitée, établi à Kinshasa et qui effectue des sondages d’opinion dans tout le pays depuis

Cet article fait partie d’une série d’essais qui commentent le sondage publié par le Groupe d’étude sur le Congo (GEC) et le Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI). Vous pouvez aussi télécharger cet article ici.  Par Jean Omasombo Tshonda Le sondage effectué par le Groupe d’études sur le Congo (GEC)

Following the release of our poll on October 25, 2016, there have been some questions regarding our methodology. In the interest of transparency, we have published the entire anonymized results here, along with the codebook here. A primer on how to use the codebook can be found here: http://xlsform.org and CRG/BERCI are

Herbert Weiss This is the first of several essays published by the Congo Research Group(CRG) at the Center on International Cooperation in reaction to a nationwide poll conducted by CRG and the Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI). You can also download this essay here. This survey by the

The Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University conducted a nationally representative political opinion poll across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between May and September 2016, researchers interviewed 7,545 people in face-to-face interviews. Some of our main findings

A little more than four months before the end of President Joseph Kabila’s term, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the edge of a deep political crisis. Given the many artificial delays created by the government, it will be almost impossible for elections to be held by December 2016,

Since October 2014, the region around the town of Beni in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has been the site of some of the worst massacres in the country’s recent history. Over five hundred people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes.