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Kinshasa stands to lose revenues worth tens of millions of dollars in opaque deal with company linked to Abu Dhabi's national security advisor, In one of the most egregious mining contracts signed so far by President Félix Tshisekedi's government, he has endorsed the award of 'exclusive rights' over the country's entire artisanal gold, tin, tungsten and coltan (3T) production for the next 25 years to Primera Group Ltd, a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company.

The President is trying to decide whether to contest or postpone December's polls while juggling his political alliances and musing on threats in the east, President Félix Tshisekedi has been consolidating power, but that does not mean accountability and better governance are any closer than when he fraudulently won the presidency in 2018. A presidential election is scheduled in December and rather than fight to win it, Tshisekedi's advisors are counselling postponing the elections by using the conflict in the east with Rwanda's proxies, the M23 guerrillas, as an excuse.

President Tshisekedi seems to have sewn up the 2023 elections, while realpolitik has put paid to his anti-corruption agenda, How time flies. In 2022 President Félix Tshisekedi enters the fourth year of his five-year 'mandate', with little so far to show the Congolese for it. His flagship programme of free primary education is floundering, with unpaid teachers refusing to work unless parents provide their salaries. And he has made little progress in fulfilling his grand promise to speed up electrification from covering an estimated 11% to 30% of Congolese by 2023.