December 2025 The presidential signings of peace and economic deals between the DR Congo and Rwanda in Washington, DC come amid active fighting and little incentive to reverse Rwanda’s invasion. President Donald Trump received the Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda for the signing of a peace agreement aimed at […]
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November 2025 The Congolese mining sector is tightening further with the application of legal obligations. It is no longer a secret that on 7 November 2025, the Minister of Mines, Mr Louis Watum Kabamba, proceeded with the withdrawal of seven mining titles belonging to various mining companies for non-payment of annual surface rights, one of
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November 2025 Between popular anger, governmental reactions and demands from local and international non-governmental organisations, the pollution case involving the company Congo Dongfang Mining, CDM, continues to fuel various discussions and criticisms of the failures observed in the Congolese environmental monitoring and control system in general and in the Greater Katanga region in particular. For
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The Lualaba province was struck by a drama of rare intensity on Saturday 15 November 2025. A stampede occurred in the Mulondo quarry, an exploitation permit of the company Chemaf (PE 2116) where there is artisanal exploitation approximately fifty kilometres from Kolwezi. According to initial estimates relayed by several local sources, 49 artisanal diggers lost
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November 2025 On the eve of the signing of the crucial peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the Minister of Communication and Media, Patrick Muyaya, and the Spokesperson for the Head of State, Tina Salama, held a special briefing from the American capital. The Congolese Executive presented a “coherent package” of
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November 2025 The Minister of Mines, Louis Watum, has lifted the measure suspending gold exploitation throughout the province of Ituri. He made this announcement on Monday 6 October 2025 in Bunia, during a meeting with mining operators and provincial authorities. Measures have already been taken to ensure better governance of the mining sector in this
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November 2025 Two human rights defence organisations, PELDDH (Patrice Emery Lumumba for Community Development, Defence and Promotion of Human Rights) and IPDHOR (Initiative for the Protection of Human Rights and Social Reintegration), are sounding the alarm on a presumed mafia system surrounding the exploitation of coltan and cassiterite in Maniema province. In a joint communiqué,
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November 2025 The mining sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a major pillar of the national economy, representing more or less 80% of budgetary revenues and nearly 50% of public revenues. According to a survey by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) published in 2023, this sector also constitutes 99% of exports
November 2025 Kinshasa hosted on Tuesday 25 November, at the Pullman Chapiteau, a high-level Forum on the refinement and strengthening of the macroeconomic framework model through the inclusion of forecasts of budgetary revenues from the extractive sector. As a member of the high-level panel, the National Minister of Mines, Louis Watum Kabamba, spoke on “The
