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Katanga Major Cobalt Center by 2011

By 2011, George Forrest International and its associates look set to control over half the world’s supply of cobalt, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Ras Al Khaimah Emirate Moves Into Katanga

Hard on the heels of the Chinese and Indians, investors from the Gulf are now taking positions in the rich [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Thomas Nziratimana Jiji

Business and politics are closely linked in Congo's mining sector. Thomas Nziratimana Jiji, the former governor of South Kivu, is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Key Central Africa Road Accord

At the beginning of March, the African Development Bank signed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

300 Chinese Expelled

At the end of February, the governor of Katanga, Moïse [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.03.2008

Last of the White Elephants?

Dogged by increasing power cuts, the government is finding it ever harder to finance huge power projects at the Inga dam.

Subscribers only Energy 04.03.2008

Chinese Firms Get Swift Entry to Katanga

Although the process of revising mining contracts in Katanga has run into delays, the government has moved extremely fast to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Okimo Seeking Partners

Delegates from the Office Congolais de l’Or de Kilo-Moto (Okimo) to the Indaba Mining conference in Cape Town earlier this [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Anvil Acquitted in Kilwa Massacre Case

At last, the end of a long legal battle for the Australian company Anvil Mining. Several Non Governmental Organisations in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Sam Brownback

The Republican senator for Kansas plans to put forward a bill that would oblige American companies to produce a certificate [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Dorothée Madiya Mwamba

We wrote incorrectly in the last issue of Africa Mining Intelligence (N°173, dated 13 February), that the lawyer Dorothée Madiya [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Kinshasa
Commission of Inquiry into Miners’ Contribution

At a conference in Brussels on February 20 and 21 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.02.2008

Threat Shifts to Block 2

After withdrawing Tullow Oil’s rights on block 1 on the banks of Lake Albert, the oil ministry is now threatening to take back block 2 as well.

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2008

SNE
Seeking an Auditing Firm

Congo-K’s state-owned Societe Nationale d’Electricite has issued a call for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2008

Lawyers Swing into Action

Amid uncertainty over the future of foreign companies’ mining conventions embroiled in a revision process that has been going on [...]

Free access Mining 12.02.2008

François Nzekuye

Former official of the Congolese Ministry for Mines, François Nzekuye was on the lookout for new contracts at the annual [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2008

Olivier Smeets

A former official of Belgolaise’s Africa Merchant Bank’s (AMB) from 2001 to 2005, Olivier Smeets had moved back to Fortis’s [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2008

Maurice Kayombo

This journalist on the investigative magazine "Les Grands Enjeux" has been held since January 9 at the Centre Pénitentiaire et [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2008

Kinshasa
Congo "Miners" Hold Own Conference in Cape Town

The main actors in the Congolese mining community were present [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.02.2008

Rush on East African Rift

Two new companies are positioning themselves on acreage on the banks of Congolese lakes.

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2008

Taking a New Look at Basin

After a first partnership with the American concern Fusion Petroleum [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.2008

Buyelwa Sonjica

On the verge of bankruptcy, Miniere de Bakwanga (Miba), the largest diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.2008

Kabila Names Allies to State-Owned Firms

It’s early spring clean time at the presidency. In an edict dated January 12, President Joseph Kabila and Prime Minister [...]

Free access Mining 29.01.2008

Banro gold resources at Twanziga rise 23%

Banro Corporation’s measured and indicated resources at the Twanziga gold [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.01.2008

Zephyrin Tshibambe Ndjibu

The Congolaise des Hydrocarbures (Cohydro) group underwent a major shakeup on Jan. 12 like most of Congo-K’s other state-owned concerns. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2008

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