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Senate Report Alleges "Large-Scale Fraud"

September promises to be stormy in the Congolese Senate as it debates the report by a Commission of Enquiry into [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Rail Key to Katanga Mining Boom

A recovery in mining activity in Katanga could be jeopardised by the inadequacy of means of transport, a Commission of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.07.2009

Vulture Fund FG Hemisphere’s New Offensive

The vulture fund FG Hemisphere (AMI N°195) is now targeting mining companies. On July 7, the Congolese tax authority, the [...]

Free access Mining 14.07.2009

CAMEC Reaches Off-Take Deal

Central African Mining & Exploration Co (CAMEC) finally reached an off-take agreement in early July after long discussions with the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Mwana Africa May Cut Costs After Loss

Kalaa Mpinga’s Mwana Africa group clocked up a loss of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 14.07.2009

Softer Tone on Border Spat

After issuing a string of provocative statements concerning its border [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

Crescent Consultants

Engaged in a legal dispute with Canada’s MagEnergy group (AEI [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

COPPER/COBALT
DRC Central Bank Gives In On Chinese Cash

After numerous attempts, Gecamines finally obtained a payment of USD 50 million from the Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC) on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.06.2009

Banro Raises CAD 100 million for Twangiza Gold

Banro Corp last week completed a CAD 100 million fund-raising exercise for developing its gold project at Twangiza in Congo-K. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.06.2009

Billiton May Get Nod for Inga 3

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Congo’s deputy prime minister in charge of construction, Emile Bongeli, recently indicated he was highly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Tension on the Border

In mid-June, the police commissioner in the Uganda district of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Kinshasa
Agreement with Rwanda on Lake Kivu

The chairman of Congo-K's Societe Nationale d’Electricite, Eugene Serufuli Ngayabaseka, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Lusaka
Huge Power Blackout

A fire on June 15 at the main transformer station [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

King & Kings’ Case Dismissed

On June 8, Congo-K’s supreme court threw out a suit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Tengen Ruffled Over Traxys Withdrawal

Belgian trader Traxys Belgium SA’s decision in April to declare force majeure in Congo-K and suspend its activities there in [...]

Free access Mining 16.06.2009

The Good and the Bad in Dutch Tin Trade

A report from the NGO Friends of the Earth Netherlands called "Unacceptable Metal Mining in developing countries and the responsibilities [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Daniel Banza

The Congolese company Maoni Mining took out a lawsuit at the beginning of June before the Court of Appeal of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Kinshasa
Mining Recovering in Katanga

Mining activity is seeing a tangible recovery in the copper [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Lundin Bid Takes Firm into Ituri Gold

The Canadian firm Red Back Mining Inc, part of Lundin [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

Russian Bank in Oil Deal

The Mining Bank of Congo (MBC), an affiliate of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Soros Targets Katanga Operators

Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), a project financed by George Soros’ Open Society for Southern Africa that keeps an eye [...]

Free access Mining 02.06.2009

Gecamines Lays Claim to Chinese Cash

Labour unrest is dogging Générales des carrières et de mines (Gecamines), where workers are claiming payment for 47 months of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

Vale Moving in on Manganese

Vale, the Brazilian heavyweight in iron, has confirmed it is interested in Congo’s mineral resources. Last month the group invited [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

Symphorien Dunia

A test of strength has begun between the government and mining trade union, which are opposing the recent decree opening [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

Christine Tuse

The managing director general of Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA), Christine Tuse, began consultations on May 18 with provincial authorities and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.06.2009

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