Tag: Central Africa
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🇨🇲 Cameroon Steel Plant Explosion Kills Four and Injures 16 as Safety Questions Mount in Douala
At least four people have been killed and 16 seriously injured after an explosion and fire at Metafrique Steel in Douala, Cameroon. The disaster has triggered an investigation and renewed questions about industrial safety following an earlier fire at the facility.
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DR Congo Suspends Artisanal Mining Agency Chief Over Failure to Prevent Illegal Activities
DR Congo’s mines minister has suspended SAEMAPE director general Jean-Paul Kadiobo Kapongo, accusing the state artisanal-mining agency of failing to prevent illegal mining on licensed concessions. The move could signal tighter government enforcement across the country’s informal mining sector.
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🇨🇲 Cameroon’s Kribi Port Invests CFA21.5 Billion to Increase Container Terminal Capacity by 30%
Cameroon’s Kribi Container Terminal has begun a reported CFA21.5 billion expansion that will add eight hectares and increase container-handling capacity by approximately 30%, with completion targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027. The investment is designed to support rising trade volumes and potential cargo generated by a planned industrial zone near the deepwater port.
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🇨🇩 DRC Seeks to Revive Oil Exploration at Lake Albert as Kinshasa Looks Toward Uganda and China
The Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking to revive oil exploration on its side of Lake Albert after roughly 15 years of stalled development. President Félix Tshisekedi’s government is looking toward closer cooperation with Uganda and China as Kinshasa attempts to unlock the region’s petroleum potential and connect eastern Congo to wider energy and infrastructure…
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇩🇰 The Ambassador: A Controversial Journey Into Africa’s Diamond Trade
The Ambassador takes viewers into the Central African Republic’s diamond trade through Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger’s unconventional undercover investigation. Although the film is not set in the DRC, its questions about mineral access, foreign investment, diplomacy and African resource value chains remain relevant to today’s Congo mining debate.
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🇷🇼 Kagame’s Defining Speech: At Washington Accords Signing, Rwanda Declares African Ownership of Peace
In a moment that reshapes the narrative of Central African diplomacy, Rwandan President Paul Kagame delivered a landmark address at the historic signing of the Washington Accords. Standing alongside U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi, Kagame framed the agreement not merely as a foreign-brokered deal, but as a…