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
November 2025 The Deputy Director General of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) for West Africa, Joseph Martial Ribeiro, received on 17 November at the institution’s headquarters in Abidjan a high-level American delegation led by Jessica Davis Ba, United States Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, and Alex Severens, Alternate Executive Director of the Bank Group for
November 2025 Barrick Mining is said to have agreed to pay 244 billion CFA francs (430 million dollars) as part of its agreement with Mali, under the deal concluded by the company to end a two-year dispute that led to the closure of the Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex, according to Bloomberg. The payment is expected to
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Rio Tinto has stockpiled 2 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore at its Simandou project in Guinea for a shipment in mid-November, three sources told Reuters, which would be the first from the mega-mine that should reshape global supply and prices. In its third-quarter production report published, Rio declared that SimFer – one of the
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A high Kenyan court has blocked the construction of a 2 billion dollar coal-fired power plant near the coastal town of Lamu, which is home to a site listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The developers of the 1,050 megawatt installation, majority-owned by Centum Investment Co., failed to ensure adequate public participation, declared Judge
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