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Rachid Lallali

Furious that the belligerents members of the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo are making no effort to implement the [...]

Subscribers only 15.09.2000

Traders Get Their Revenge

Slammed even before it came into effect (AEM 281), a monopoly over the marketing of Congo's diamonds that was handed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.09.2000

Gasoline Shortage in Kinshasa

The gasoline shortage in Kinshasa has become critical. Retailers and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.09.2000

Airlines cooperate

Air Zimbabwe is so strapped for foreign currency needed to [...]

Subscribers only 08.09.2000

Kampala in strength behind Bemba

The military presence of UPDF (Ugandan army) has increased in Equator, the province north of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.09.2000

MIBA-ABC Contract for Lubilanji

The diamond company Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA) has just signed a BFr201 million ($4.5 million) contract with the Anglo-Belgian Corporation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2000

Diamond Monopoly Challenged

A major outcry has arisen in Democratic Republic of Congo over a contract signed on July 31 between the government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2000

SNE/SNEL Settling the Bill

The Brazzaville government, which has decided to pay back the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2000

NEW JOINT VENTURE

A new private company linking Congolese and Zimbabwe interests in the mining industry has been set up following last year's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2000

UM RETURNS TO KOLWEZI

Union Miniere announced on Oct. 4 that it had acquired a 19% stake in American Mineral Fields by subscribing to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.10.1999

NOOSE AROUND MBUJI MAYI TIGHTENS

Mines have been sewn at the Lubilanji power station that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

ITALY APPROACHED FOR GRAND INGA

Energy minister Babi Mbayi appealed to Italy last month to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

BOULLE ON THE MOVE

Jean-Raymond Boulle has just transferred his controlling interest in Sierra Rutile (SRL) to MIL (Investment), the unlisted Luxembourg company owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

KABILA AND RAUTENBACH FALL OUT

Relations between Congo president Laurent Kabila and Billy Rautenbach, the Zimbabwe businessman who controls Gecamines, have taken a sharp turn [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

A DIAMONDWORKS-GXC LINK

Global Exploration Corp. (GXC), which has just made its debut in the Democratic Republic of Congo on several concessions on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Spotlight
MINES COULD DICTATE SETTLEMENT

The mining factor has begun to loom large again as prospects for a cease-fire in Democratic Republic of Congo brighten. Indeed, any accord would owe much to the situation in the industry, with Gecamines (GCM) plunging further into crisis and [.

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

ONE ASPECT OF GLOBALIZATION

An Internet provider in Florida has just won a contract to open a site for the sale of "African diamonds [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

CONGO TAKES NEIGHBORS TO COURT

The climate took a turn for the worse three days before the regional summit meeting at Lusaka on June 26 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

PRODUCER PRICE FOR COBALT BACK

Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo are re-introducing a producer price for cobalt after abandoning the system in 1994. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

STRIKE LOOMS AT GECAMINES

Unions at Gecamines suspended a first walkout by the company's personnel based in Kinshasa between April 22-25 after being promised [...]