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Diggers holding up Trafigura at Lupoto

A subsidiary of the Dutch trading company Trafigura, Luna Mining, is still waiting for the Congolese authorities to clear illicit [...]

Free access Mining 06.05.2014

CNMC Huachin spreads its wings

The governor of Katanga province, Moise Katumbi, last month inaugurated [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Kabila set on 2015 start for Inga

Although the World Bank’s representative in Kinshasa, Eustache Ouayoro, said in March that ground wouldn’t be broken for Inga 3 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

Soco again under suspicion

Prince Emmanuel de Merode, the Belgian conservator of the Virunga [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

Crispin Atama

Crispin Atama, Congo-K’s oil minister, is working to persuade public [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

New export routes for copper

Currently dependent on South Africa to export their output, mining companies in the Congo-Zambian copperbelt are searching for new and [...]

Free access Mining 15.04.2014

Outburst of anger among diamond traders

Diamond transactions have been seriously disrupted in Mbuji-Mayi, capital of Eastern Kasai and the Mecca of Congo-K’s diamond trade. Since [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.04.2014

ANR racketeers target expatriates

Attacks and kidnappings against Westerners in Kinshasa are on the rise. Henchmen for the national intelligency agency and the police force are being blamed.

Subscribers only Politics 09.04.2014

Orange invests in Kinshasa

Stephane Richard, the head of French telephone company Orange, is [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.04.2014

Snail’s pace in methane deals

Companies interested in getting into the extraction of methane from Lake Kivu are facing a long wait to win blocks, and legal hurdles are piling up.

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.2014

SNEL direly squeezed by TFM

The powerful mining joint venture TFM is refusing to pay the current rate for electricity because of patchy supply.

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.2014

Ashurst helps with oil bill

A lawyer from Britain’s Ashurst firm is currently advising Congo’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.2014

Sicomines counting on 120,000 tons by 2015

According to our sources in Kinshasa, Congo-K's mines ministry feels pretty confident about the future of a project espoused by [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.04.2014

Jean Saidi Bamanisa

The governor of Oriental province and a businessman with widespread interests, Jean Saidi Bamanisa, has bought into the cement trade. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.04.2014

Leonide Mupepele Monti

The head of Congo-K’s Centre d’Expertise, d’Evaluation et de Certification des Matieres Precieuses (CEEC) until 2010, Leonide Mupepele Monti has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.04.2014

Consensus in sight for mining code

According to information from senior officials in Congo-K's mines ministry, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.04.2014

World Bank behind Inga dam

The World Bank’s board of directors approved a $73.1 million grant on March 20 to finance a technical assistance program [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.2014

Energy Congo makes headway

The firm Congo Energy controlled by Groupe Forrest International (GFI) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.2014

China Gold targets Kamoa’s copper

The China National Gold Group Corp (CNGC) intends to acquire a 15% holding in the huge Kamoa copper project that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.03.2014

Benjamin Mancroft

Named president of the advisory committee of Dan Gertler’s Fleurette Group, Benjamin Mancroft, who sits in Britain’s Parliament under the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.03.2014

Ivanhoe drilling in Kipushi

Ivanhoe Mines is to shortly begin a 20,000 metre sampling [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.03.2014

Germans in power overdrive

The state-owned mining giant Gecamines is hoping to make up for power shortages in Katanga by starting to build a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.2014

Kabila counts on Zongo 2 in 2015

With elections scheduled for next year, Congo-K’s president is touring the country to put pressure on builders of new dams. Sinohydro has received good marks for Zongo 2.

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.2014

Kinshasa

Ahmed Kalej Nkand, administrator of the state-owned copper and cobalt [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.03.2014

AEE Power bursts on scene

The Spanish concern AEE Power, a subsidiary of Eurofinsa, has agreed with Actividades de Construccion y Servicios (ACS) to jointly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

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Diggers holding up Trafigura at Lupoto

CNMC Huachin spreads its wings

Kabila set on 2015 start for Inga

Soco again under suspicion

Crispin Atama

New export routes for copper

Outburst of anger among diamond traders

ANR racketeers target expatriates

Orange invests in Kinshasa

Snail’s pace in methane deals

SNEL direly squeezed by TFM

Ashurst helps with oil bill

Sicomines counting on 120,000 tons by 2015

Jean Saidi Bamanisa

Leonide Mupepele Monti

Consensus in sight for mining code

World Bank behind Inga dam

Energy Congo makes headway

China Gold targets Kamoa’s copper

Benjamin Mancroft

Ivanhoe drilling in Kipushi

Germans in power overdrive

Kabila counts on Zongo 2 in 2015

Kinshasa

AEE Power bursts on scene

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Diggers holding up Trafigura at Lupoto

CNMC Huachin spreads its wings

Kabila set on 2015 start for Inga

Soco again under suspicion

Crispin Atama

New export routes for copper

Outburst of anger among diamond traders

ANR racketeers target expatriates

Orange invests in Kinshasa

Snail’s pace in methane deals

SNEL direly squeezed by TFM

Ashurst helps with oil bill

Sicomines counting on 120,000 tons by 2015

Jean Saidi Bamanisa

Leonide Mupepele Monti

Consensus in sight for mining code

World Bank behind Inga dam

Energy Congo makes headway

China Gold targets Kamoa’s copper

Benjamin Mancroft

Ivanhoe drilling in Kipushi

Germans in power overdrive

Kabila counts on Zongo 2 in 2015

Kinshasa

AEE Power bursts on scene

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