Today in Katanga, specifically in Lubumbashi, to mark the presence of mining giant Kibali Gold Mines at the 21st edition of DRC Mining Week, Mr. Jean Paul Ilunga Mbayo, an electrical engineer, granted an interview to the media outlets of the Mining News Magazine and Leaders press group. The interview is reproduced below in full. […]
En sejour au Katanga dans la ville cuprifere de Lubumbashi pour une participation active aux 21 ieme session d’échanges de la semaine minière DRC week 2026, l’ inspecteur général de mines, Raphaël Kabengele s’est entretenu avec la presse congolaise tant écrite qu’audio-visuelle sur les grands sujets d’actualité concernant l’envahissement des permis miniers par les exploitants
Nigeria and several African countries hold deposits of lithium, cobalt, tin, and other minerals used in batteries, electric vehicles, and renewable energy technologies. The value of those precious metals is estimated at more than $700 billion in Africa’s most populous economy, and they are largely untapped. Yet much of the output is exported in raw
At the heart of Congo’s mining turning point: what Louis Watum Kabamba really said in Toronto — and why it matters. In early March 2026, at one of the world’s most important mining gatherings — the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) in Toronto — Louis Watum Kabamba, Minister of Mines of the Democratic
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February 2026 The province of Lualaba, the true lung of the extractive industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is experiencing a decisive phase of reorganisation of its mining sector. A clean-up commission led by Franck Fwamba, Special Advisor to the Minister of Mines, recently launched an operation to control and bring into compliance
February 2026 After the United States of America where he participated in Washington at the Critical Minerals Forum and met with miners and American officials as part of the DRC-USA Strategic Partnership, the tireless Minister of Mines Louis Watum is in South Africa for Indaba 2026. At the ministerial symposium of Investing in African Mining
February 2026 The Government of the United States and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reaffirm our shared commitment to advancing economic growth, stability, and prosperity for both of our peoples. Through the U.S.-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement, we are building a foundation for increased U.S. investment in the DRC, recognizing that
February 2026 As global competition over critical minerals intensifies, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has emerged as one of the most strategically significant actors in the international minerals economy. Home to the world’s largest cobalt reserves, alongside substantial deposits of copper, lithium, manganese, iron ore, and rare earth elements, the DRC occupies a pivotal
The global metals and mining industry recorded one of its best financial performances of the last two decades last year, gaining 700 billion dollars in […] The cobalt is not the only transition mineral that the Pentagon is stockpiling. Graphite, another key component of energy storage systems, represents the most important recent demand from the
