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Gécamines makes its return to trading with a strategic shipment to the United States

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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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Category B processing entities in southern Katanga: Louis Kambamba Watum is determined to recover the rights of the Congolese people and the State

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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

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EGC and Trafigura are shipping copper and cobalt to the global market via the Lobito Atlantic railway

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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”).

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Mining Indaba 2026: Louis Watum centres his intervention on strategic partnerships and the sustainable valorisation of the DRC’s mineral resources

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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

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Joint Statement on the Inaugural Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee of the U.S.-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement

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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

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Louis K. Watum, The DR Congo’s Minister of Mines as a Strategic Actor in the Emerging U.S.-DRC Critical Minerals Partnership

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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

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Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: Towards Strengthened Control of Category B Copper and Cobalt Processing Entities

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February 2026 A rigorous control of processing entities On the instructions of the national Minister of Mines, Louis Watum Kabamba, an ad hoc commission led by Franck Fwamba was at work for this purpose. Deployed at the provincial governorate to carry out an exhaustive examination of the files of processing entities operating in the region,

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DRC and United States of America: Lucy Tamlyn Defends the Washington Agreement, a “Win-Win” Mining Partnership

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December 2025 The United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lucy Tamlyn, vigorously rejected accusations of “selling off” Congolese mineral resources, during an exchange with the press on Monday 15 December 2025 in Kinshasa. She presented the Washington agreement as a balanced strategic partnership, based on mutual interests and focused on

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Regional Economic Integration Framework between the DRC and Rwanda Tshisekedi and Trump or THE GAME CHANGERS

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December 2025 The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Government of the Republic of Rwanda (Rwanda) (collectively referred to as “the Participants”) Welcoming the Declaration of Principles signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, and the Minister of Foreign

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