December 2025 The Democratic Republic of Congo is taking a new step in the appropriation of international norms on security and respect for human rights within its extractive sector. The Minister of Mines, Louis Watum Kabamba, took part in Kinshasa in the closing ceremony of the work on the development of the operational strategies of […]
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 Kurita Water Industries and Evove have announced their alliance in direct lithium extraction (DLE), combining the patented DLE technologies and processes of Evove with those of Kurita […] Appeared between the two world wars, the constitution of mineral stocks has always been linked to military preparedness. It is in this context that the
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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
November 2025 The United States is directing materials such as cobalt and graphite towards national defence rather than new climate technologies. The author is responsible for global systems and policies at the Climate and Community Institute and research lead at the Transition Security Project. This summer, the Pentagon announced its intention to acquire nearly 7,500
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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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November 2025 In PARIS, on 19 October 2025, a daring break-in shook one of the most famous temples of art. Thieves, disguised as workers, entered the Apollo Gallery of the Louvre Museum and stole several pieces from the French Crown Jewels. The theft, which lasted only a few minutes, raises the question on everyone’s mind:
Louvre Heist: The Question of Security for Jewels and Precious Stones Resurfaces Read More »
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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