Congo bans exports of unrefined cobalt, copper
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-04-19 09:11:48 -0700 | business-news
Congo Congo's government is banning exports of cobalt and copper concentrates to force miners to process the raw minerals and increase the value of its exports. A letter from Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu obtained Friday gives mining companies 90 days...
Group suspends Congo for lack of disclosure
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-04-18 08:19:35 -0700 | business-news
Congo The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative says it is suspending Congo's membership for a year over failures to disclose all mineral and oil revenues. A statement Thursday says that despite "significant progress" the country still has not presented reliable figures...
DRC Civil society wants an attractive law for hydrocarbons investment
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2013-04-13 04:45:18 -0700 | business-news
DRC civil society is to provide an overview of the hydrocarbons law. For the civil society, this law must be "attractive and incentive of investments, guaranteeing the permanent sovereignty of the Congolese people over their natural resources." This is one...
DRC civil society wants a mining code with a vision
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-08-09 04:42:22 -0700 | business-news
"A mining code and attractive investment incentives, ensuring national sovereignty and promoting the interests of the state and local communities, based on transparency, accountability and social participation of local communities in managing natural resources and promoting sustainable...
Matata Ponyo: "DRC lives of importation of any agricultural product"
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-30 09:44:15 -0700 | business-news
"The DRC imports agricultural products, practically lives on import of any agricultural product such as potatoes, beans and even pimento," said Augustin Matata Ponyo, the DRC Prime Minister, on Thursday, July 26, 2012, in his address of the official launch...
DRC: Less than 10% of tractors received are used in agriculture
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 11:44:19 -0700 | business-news
"My department has already received 2,175 tractors with less than 10% are used to that end" said Jean Chrysostome Vahamwiti, DRC Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Thursday, July 26, 2012, at the launch of the crop year 2012-2013 ....
DRC will work on 5,750 ha for food crops between 2012-2013
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 11:46:54 -0700 | business-news
The DRC government intends to make available 5,750 hectares for food crops during this crop year 2012-2013. Jean Chrysostome Vahamwiti, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, who had announced it in these words: "My department is committed through the...
DRC Government invited to finance its institution of fight against corruption
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 12:27:15 -0700 | business-news
Participants in reflection day on mechanisms of fight against corruption organized Friday 13, July 2012 in Kinshasa by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) recommended to DRC Government to finance its institutions of fight against the corruption. Responsible of...
More than 70% of public spending escapes to the Counts Court
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 12:28:32 -0700 | business-news
"More than 70% of public spending doesn’t go by public accountants, but through the scheduling of the Central Bank which is also a public accountant," said Justin Kabongo, president of the African Association for the Fight against Corruption (AALC), Friday,...
The DRC Control Office announces the modernization of its laboratory
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 12:57:21 -0700 | business-news
"Today we open the doors of our lab that, tomorrow, will not be what you see. This is a major challenge that we will meet for certification ", said today in Kinshasa, the Director General of the Congolese Control Office...
DRC: Only 27 State farms on 140 are operational in eastern Kasai
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 14:52:01 -0700 | business-news
The result of a report prepared by a delegation from the DRC Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock farming Ministry indicates that only 27 State farms on 140 are operational in eastern Kasai, Radio Okapi announced it yesterday. According to the same...
DRC: The fishermen's Moanda expose in Kinshasa
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-28 01:39:27 -0700 | business-news
The Fishermen's Association Moanda (CAPEM), a town located in the province of Bas-Congo, organized an exhibition and sale of fish Sunday, May 6, 2012 at a supermarket in Kinshasa, announced today the newspaper Le Phare, a daily published in Kinshasa....
A certification document on minerals in the Great Lakes region to fight against fraud
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-28 01:42:07 -0700 | business-news
A document certifying the origin of minerals sold in the Great Lakes region is available for the DRC and other Etas of this space of Africa as part of the eradication effort against fraud on mining, the newspaper “le Potentiel”,...
600,000 barrels escape per day DRC to benefit of Angola
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-27 16:12:05 -0700 | business-news
"Oil production from Block 15 of the Congolese continental shelf benefits to Angola which draws 600,000 barrels per day. Converted into liquid, this daily production is an important source of income that the country needs to finance its budget which...
After the report on Glencore, Church thinks it should put pressure on DRC government and Gecamines
Posted by: Jean-Rene_Bompolonga
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated 2012-07-28 01:46:09 -0700 | business-news
"The Church must encourage State and Gecamines to have tone. When a company says it made losses but manages to make loans to its subsidiaries, there is something abnormal. We must sensitize population, but also to put DRC government and...
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