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Ore Smuggling Grows Apace in East Congo

According to Arthur Kepel, a researcher for the International Crisis Group (ICG), ore smuggling is spreading more and more in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.10.2009

Asian Traders Expand in East Congo

Asian ore trading houses are burgeoning in the east of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.10.2009

A Trader Pushes for Business

The Bureau Intercontinental ( bUIC), a trading company headed by Congolese national Michel Ondaye, is bombarding Western traders with proposals [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.2009

ABB Lends Hand to Katanga

ABB will shortly help Katanga and the sub-region of Congo-K to profit more from the Inga dams.

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.2009

Fallout from Boundary Spat

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the expulsion of thousands of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.2009

Jeannine Mabunda Lioko

Jeannine Mabunda Lioko, Congo-K's public enterprises minister, will attend the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.10.2009

RAID Singles Out Chinese Firms for Criticism

The NGO Right & Accountability in Development (RAID), based in Oxford, accuses Chinese companies of breaching work and mining codes [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.10.2009

Kalembwe, New Head of Gecamines

A mining engineer by training, Calixte Mukasa Kalembwe, Gecamines’ deputy [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.10.2009

Kimbanguiste’s Go It Alone

The religious Kimbanguiste community, which feels the government has ignored its electricity needs, is buying a power station of its own.

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.2009

Koreans Moving into Mine Infrastructure

South Korean interests are poised to become logistical partners for BHP Billiton in its project for an 800 000 t/year [...]

Free access Mining 29.09.2009

Katanga Mines Minister Suspended

The minister for mines and land affairs for Katanga province, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.09.2009

Banro Chooses Advisor for Twangiza

Banro Corp has hired Standard Chartered Bank as its sole [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.09.2009

Drought Threatens Ruzizi 1

The water level of Lake Kivu is causing increasing concern among electricity experts who are alarmed over the continuing drop [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.09.2009

SNEL Wants to Build Power Station in Capital

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the British concern Aggreko [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.09.2009

FEC Challenges CEEC’s Monitoring Ambitions

A plan by the minister for mines, Martin Kabwelulu, to put the Centre d’Evaluation, d’Expertise, et de Certification des Substances [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.09.2009

Congo Gold Cure For Mwana Africa?

Initial resources of 452,000 ounces of gold have been demonstrated on the Zani-Kodo concession held by Mwana Africa, the group [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.09.2009

Paul Fortin

Paul Fortin, a Canadian business lawyer who is chief executive officer of the Congolese semi-state-owned mining company Gecamines and in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.09.2009

Karel de Gucht

The new European Commissioner for Development plans active intervention through all possible channels to limit the illegal ore trade that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.09.2009

Plan to Bring Eastern Mines Under Control

The Congolese government wants to have greater control over the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.09.2009

Seoul Shifts into High Gear

South Korea’s government is sparing no effort to help the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.09.2009

Johannes Krall

The Congolese minister for mines has just ordered Krall Metal Congo (KMC), an Austrian company owned by Johannes and Edith [...]