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MIBA waiting on extraction units to confirm revival

After resuming its diamond extraction activities in September, the Congolese state-owned MIBA (Société minière de Bakwanga) may have to already [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.11.2019

Mining G7 scuppered by returning trio

The DRC branches of Australian miner MMG, Canadian firm Ivanhoe [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.11.2019

Airbus on Félix Tshisekedi's shopping list

The Congolese transport minister Didier Mazenga is shortly due to pay a visit to Toulouse to discuss the purchase of Airbus A220s.

Subscribers only Business 06.11.2019

Deputy head of MINUSCA Kenneth Gluck to step down

The deputy special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 06.11.2019

MONUSCO set to downsize again

The United Nations Security Council, which is due to consider [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.11.2019

Tshisekedi institutes agricultural free-trade zone

To attract the Chinese and Middle Eastern oligarchs who are [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.11.2019

Cadeco managing director harbouring oil ambitions

Has the partnership between the state-owned Caisse générale d'épargne du [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.11.2019

Nyembo seeks a share of road-building bonanza by mining bitumen

Speaking to Africa Intelligence during Russia-Africa summit held in Sotchi on 23 and 24 October, Dieudonné Kasembo Nyembo said his [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure 04.11.2019

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Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [.

Subscribers only Politics 01.11.2019

Spotlight
How Moscow plans to carve itself a slice of the country's mines

President Vladimir Putin and several companies used the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi on October 23 to 24 to get the ball rolling on Russia's strategic plan to muscle its way into the DRC's mining industry currently dominated by Chinese groups [.

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2019

New Yorker holding company Nimba Group opens shop in Kinshasa

The New York-based investment holding company Nimba Group, which boasts an active minerals and metals trading branch, has taken an [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2019

Och-Ziff vs. Africo: Kalukundi appraisal due mid-November

Mining consultant Neil Rigby should soon present his estimation of how much the Africa's former shareholders can ask from Och-Ziff for the loss of the Kalukundi copper and cobalt site.

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2019

Has Albert Mukina landed straight back in mining after MIBA fall?

After being kicked out of his post as the managing [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2019

Glencore doubles down on security in Kamoto

Swiss trading house Glencore has made good progress on the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.10.2019

Tensions among presidential aides as inquiry into Antonov 72 crash begins

There is friction over the organisation of presidential travel between Kabila's former head of logistics, Charles Bujiriri Deschryver, and Félix Tshisekedi's aide, Jean-Paul Mulamba Mutekemena.

Subscribers only Politics 23.10.2019

Maxime Gandzion goes into consulting in Kinshasa

Already established in Brazzaville, MG Consulting, the firm founded by the businessman Maxime Gandzion, recently opened an outpost in Kinshasa. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.10.2019

EY awarded ultra-sensitive audit

In late September, the Congolese branch of the auditing firm [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.10.2019

Blocks 14/15: minister Domingos fighting to keep oil zone status quo with Tshisekedi

From Luanda's point of view, the new Angolan president João Lourenço is hell bent on stopping his Congolese homologue Felix [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2019

Several alarm bells ringing aboard the Perenco steamship

A recent article in the French daily Le Monde covering [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2019

First lady's brother Nyakeru tries his chances in oil

Congolese first lady Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi's older brother Joe Ntalushika [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2019

Elefund seeks $220 million for Sud-Ubangi infrastructure projects

The firm is setting up a fund to finance the construction of industrial parks with integrated power stations in Zongo and Akula.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 21.10.2019

Planned industrial parks in Sud-Ubangi Province.

Washington's good cop/bad cop traceability strategy

While the US secretary of state has signed a battery metals good governance partnership with Kinshasa, his Homeland Security peers have decided to stop importing gold from DRC precisely due to a lack of good governance!

Subscribers only Mining 15.10.2019

Coltan Valley pushes for mining industry to adopt tech hubs

With his aptly named Coltan Valley, Eric Mutonji has grand plans to set up tech hubs across the DRC where electronics companies, digital developers and battery manufacturers can source their battery and 3TG metals directly.

Subscribers only Mining 15.10.2019

Auplata vice president Karim Robo starts up in consulting

French geologist Karim Robo opened his own consultancy firm Ressources [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.10.2019

Former Tenke Fungurume and Mutanda execs set up shop to help miners

Mining operators' querying of, even concern for, the Democratic Republic [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.10.2019

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