DRC
Moise Katumbi: his friends, his allies, his networks

Palace Intrigues
Patrice Talon, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Macky Sall, Guillaume Soro, Félix Tshisekedi

Intrigues big and small - every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

BeninStrauss-Kahn on a mission in Cotonou

Ivory Coast/SenegalSoro's phone call to Sall

DRCNew National Assembly president to decide on finance minister's immunity waiver

DRC
The team Moise Katumbi brought back with him to Lubumbashi

Long rehearsed by his supporters, Moise Katumbi Chapwe's return to Lubumbashi on May 20 in a Falcon 7X chartered from [...]

DRC
Town vs. province stand-off over mining royalties in Haut-Katanga

A year after Congo-K adopted its new mining code, the decentralised territorial entities (town, community, sector, chiefdom), or ETD in [...]

In Focus | DRC
Bertrand Kirszbaum, Moise Katumbi's Swiss business adviser

Businessman Moise Katumbi, who is working flat out on his presidential election bid, has put the management of his business interests in the hands of financial advisers who are running his affairs out of Geneva.

DRC
Lydie Omanga pleads Vital Kamerhe's cause in Europe

Vital Kamerhe, who will be standing in the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo this coming December, is [...]

DRC, United States
Moise Katumbi mobilises his US networks

The ex-governor of Katanga who will be running for president in December is forking out liberally to boost his image in Washington.

DRC
Paris court annuls NB Mining sale to Pascal Beveraggi

In a judgment issued on May 15 that Africa Mining Intelligence was able to consult, the Paris court of appeal [...]

DRC
Can Vital Kamerhe up his game as the presidential election looms?

One of the few opponents of Joseph Kabila not to have joined the Ensemble pour le changement coalition led by [...]

Spotlight | DRC
Glencore and Trafigura caught in Katanga tangle

The elections scheduled in 2017 to determine Congo-K president Joseph Kabila's successor are disrupting the country's economy. The unsettling climate is taking its toll on trading firms Glencore and Trafigura, who dominate copper and cobalt trading in Katanga.

Spotlight | DRC
Is Dan Gertler facing his last days in oil?

Mining Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler’s Fleurette group, which expanded into Congolese onshore in 2010 via two British Virgin Islands companies, Caprikat and Foxwhelp, to take up the most strategic blocks in Congo-K - blocks 1 and 2 -, could soon [.

DRC
Katanga Mining Province Governor Moise Katumbi finally returns to the fold

After a war-like speech on Dec. 23 and riots in January, which stirred fears among mining companies that a civil [...]

Spotlight | DRC
Kabila fills his Katanga basket fund

Recently urged by president Joseph Kabila to contribute to his new "basket fund," mining companies in Katanga were equally urged to say how much they would chip in as soon as possible. Not informed of the move, Moise Katumbi, governor [.