Following President Duma Boko’s visit to Angola last week, the Minister of Mines and Energy, Bogolo Kenewendo, revealed that Botswana has been offered a 30% stake in the Angolan petroleum refinery project. As tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East, with the Strait of Hormuz restricted, affecting fuel supply, Kenewendo informed Parliament today of
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On 13 March 2026, before members of parliament and senators, his colleague the Minister of State in charge of Social Affairs and National Solidarity and Co-Chair of the Supervisory and Monitoring Committee for the management of specialised bodies, members of the Court of Auditors and various guests, the Minister of Mines Louis Watum revealed his
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March 2026 When Louis Watum Kabamba was appointed Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2025, the message from Kinshasa was clear: the government wanted a technocrat who understood the mining industry from the inside. Watum Kabamba was not a political outsider entering the sector. He was a mining industry
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February 2026 By exercising its right of purchase on 100,000 tonnes of copper from Tenke Fungurume Mining, Gécamines is making a major shift. The Congolese public company aims to become once again a credible actor in the trading of critical minerals, in a context of geopolitical reconfiguration of global supply chains. Gécamines is about to
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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 Geneva, 9 February 2026 — Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (“EGC”) and Trafigura have agreed the first shipment of copper and cobalt to global markets via the Lobito Atlantic railway (“LAR”), marking a key step in the development of a fast and efficient mineral supply chain from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”).
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
