Vol 51 No 19 | CONGO-KINSHASA Mixed minerals 24th September 2010 The job of Congo’s Centre d’Evaluation, d’Expertise et de Certification (CEEC) and its director, Léonide Mupepele, is to certify the value of metals produced, and so to ensure...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASAMININGASIA Aiming high 22nd September 2010 China will soon surge ahead to become Congo's leading partner but not before sorting out employment and artisanal mining issues Congo-Kinshasa will outstrip its rivals over the next two years to become the world's second largest copper producer (behind Chile), with a total annual production of 1.94 million...
Vol 51 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kigali wins another round of the blame game 10th September 2010 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held an emergency meeting with President Paul Kagame in Kigali on 8 September after the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from UN peacekeeping missions. Kigali’s logic was unassailable. A draft UN report had suggested that Rwandan troops might have committed ‘crimes of genocide’ in eastern Congo-Kinshasa in 1997; if the UN endorsed those claims, Kigali said it would have no choice but to withdraw its 3,500 troops from the UN force in Darfur, Sudan. The credibility of the United Nations is on trial again after the leaking of its draft 545-page report mapping human rights violations in Congo-Kinshasa in 1993-2003. It seems...
Vol 51 No 18 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASA The UN’s credibility on the line 10th September 2010 Relations with the United Nations in general have taken a heavy hit. Kigali accuses the UN of leaking the report to distract attention from the inadequacies of its...
Vol 51 No 16 | CONGO-KINSHASAANALYSIS New pressure on the war-minerals link 6th August 2010 Congo's 'clean' minerals are more politically toxic than buyers would like Rebels are taking over more mines throughout the east, while control of minerals by corrupt government forces continues, making even Congo's 'clean' state-sourced minerals more politically toxic than...
Vol 51 No 16 | CONGO-KINSHASA Contract clashes 6th August 2010 President Joseph Kabila's government is set for another round of legal clashes with foreign companies. First is Canada's First Quantum, locked in battle with Kinshasa at the International...
Vol 51 No 16 | CONGO-KINSHASA 8 ways to clean up minerals 6th August 2010 Several schemes and approaches aim to limit the flow of Congo-Kinshasa's conflict minerals, not all of them as well coordinated as they should be. Here is our rundown.
Vol 51 No 15 | CONGO-KINSHASA Katanga makes a comeback 23rd July 2010 The secessionist movement that almost split the country 50 years ago is again on the march In the main square of Lubumbashi on 11 July, more than 20 people were arrested while demonstrating for the independence of Katanga. A month earlier, the Place de...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | CONGO-KINSHASAINDIABRIEFING Take the diamonds and run 20th July 2010 A fly-by-night Indian company registered in Hong Kong has packed its bags and disappeared after mining diamonds and not paying taxes for more than four years. Kasaï Oriental's Direction Provinciale des...