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Jean-Claude Kabongo, the business ambassador

In post for a year now, the Frenchman Jean-Claude Kabongo is the go-to contact person for Western firms in Félix Tshisekedi's entourage.

Subscribers only Politics 04.03.2020

US ambassador Mike Hammer provokes ire of Kabila camp

The reaction of the American ambassador to the Democratic Republic [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 04.03.2020

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Tshisekedi tries to unstitch DP World's Banana port monopoly

The office of the Congolese president, having criticized the terms of the contract signed by the previous administration with the UAE's DP World, is working to open up the deep-water port's construction and management to other investors.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 02.03.2020

Baiyin weighs merits of sustained open pit mining at Twangiza

The decision to place the Congolese gold mine Twangiza under care and maintenance until the end of October, as announced [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

War of words between Katumbi and Beveraggi

Communications agency Hopscotch is helping NB Mining tell its side of the story in its dispute with the former Katanga governor.

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

Lubumbashi slag heap: Trafigura wins zinc and Huayou snaps up cobalt

The reopening of the Lubumbashi tailings processing facility has reshuffled the deck of buyers, with Glencore out and Trafigura and Huayou very much in.

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

Banro wants to seal a second mine sale

The road to Canadian firm Banro Corp's sale of its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

MD Services promotes mineral wealth to Canadians

The DRC delegation's annual breakfast at the Investing in African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.02.2020

South Africa's Toll Infrastructure joins highway project led by Katumbi's brother-in-law

Toll Infrastructure Services has teamed with GED Africa, owned by Hungarian businessman René Hutton-Mills, to build a cross-border road between Zambia and the DRC.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 24.02.2020

Path of GED Africa project.

Pompeo seeks to build bridges between Kabila and Tshisekedi

The US administration has asked Angola's leader João Lourenço if he could play the mediator between the ex-Congolese president and his successor.

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Freddy Kita Bukusu, minister of a thousand networks

The deputy minister for economic planning, Freddy Kita Bukusu, has been chosen to represent President Félix Tshisekedi in Malabo on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 19.02.2020

Spotlight
How Erik Prince is building his niche on the continent

Since announcing his plans to invest in battery metals with much ado in early 2019, the American private security tycoon Erik Prince has been throwing money and staff to the task. His goal to build a portfolio of these speciality [.

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2020

The American private security tycoon Erik Prince.

Gécamines wages attack on Pengxin over Shituru copper

In its vast partnership audit launched in 2018 (AMI 431), Gécamines has unearthed details it felt warranted the filing of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2020

Och-Ziff scolded for being too nosey over Africo's Kalukundi affairs

Eastern District of New York magistrate Lois Bloom will not be allowing OZ Africa to seek documents to identify all [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2020

Yves Kabongo one step further towards total copper supply chain

As he continues to make headway at his copper processing unit in Lubumbashi, Yves Kabongo has also founded a trading unit for this highly sought-after battery metal.

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2020

Coronavirus already taking toll on Katanga mining

Drastic measures were taken in late January in the DRC's [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.02.2020

Spotlight
Eiffage to build Tembo Power's renewable energy plants?

The French construction giant is in talks with the Mauritius-registered electricity producer, which plans to start work this year on several power stations in Lualaba province.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 10.02.2020

Kabila allies lose their diplomatic passports

Over the last month, the Tshisekedi government has revoked the diplomatic passports of several Kabila allies. First in the firing was the ex-ANR chief, Kaalev Mutond.

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2020

Standoff between Pentagon and US State Department

The French armed forces minister, Florence Parly, was in Washington from 27 to 28 January in the hope of persuading [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 05.02.2020

Who will replace General Pascal Facon at helm of Barkhane?

Three generals are currently on the shortlist to take over [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2020

Mobutu man Kabuya Lumuna poised for oil sector comeback with Luanda?

The former president of the Congolese commission on continental shelf which worked on an extension to DRC's maritime rights is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2020

Spotlight
Sino-Egyptian consortium could replace ACS and China Three Gorges on Inga III

Congolese authorities are discussing the possibility of a new consortium made up of of Egypt's Income and the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) taking over the Inga III project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 03.02.2020

Jinchuan and Gécamines find common ground over Ruashi

The Ruashi copper mine partners have managed to find an amicable settlement to their scuffle over unpaid taxes that had led them down a path to arbitration.

Subscribers only Mining 28.01.2020

Unicef urges miners to defend children's rights

While buyers of minerals extracted in DRC were recently reminded [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.01.2020

PACT digs in heels over criticism of its programmes in Mutoshi

The NGO PACT has taken offence to the claims that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.01.2020

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