Tag: Democratic Republic of Congo
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Imperial Metals Reports Sharp Third-Quarter Earnings Decline: What the Results Mean for African Mining and Global Copper Markets
Imperial Metals reported a 51% decline in third-quarter adjusted EBITDA to C$45.1 million as lower copper and gold production at its Mount Polley and Red Chris mines weakened financial performance despite higher international metal prices. The results offer important lessons for African mining economies, particularly the DRC, Zambia and Ghana, on operational efficiency, mineral beneficiation…
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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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🇨🇩 M23’s Shadow Over Eastern Congo: How Fear Becomes a Tool of Control
A disturbing image from territory described as being under AFC-M23 control raises a larger question: why does armed violence against civilians become a tool of territorial control in eastern Congo? Documented investigations reveal patterns of killings, detention, forced recruitment and intimidation—and a conflict where fear itself has become a weapon.
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🇨🇩 NBA Africa to Build 55 Basketball Courts Across DR Congo to Honor Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Africa and Quest Water Global are planning to build or renovate 55 basketball courts across the Democratic Republic of Congo by 2030, honoring late NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo and expanding opportunities for young Congolese athletes.
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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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🇨🇩 KoBold Metals uses AI to search for critical minerals in Congo
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in Africa, African Business, Bauxite, Geopolitics, Gold, Investment, Iron Ore, Lithium, Minerals, MiningKoBold Metals is using artificial intelligence, geological data, satellite imagery and thousands of soil samples to search for lithium and other critical minerals around Manono in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project highlights a new phase of African mineral exploration — where AI and geological intelligence are becoming as strategically important as the resources…
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🇨🇩 Inside the gold rush village hit by mine collapse tragedy
Rescue operations at an artisanal gold mine in the village of Lomera in the Democratic Republic of Congo are continuing after a number of shafts collapsed over the weekend. Local reports say an unknown number of miners are trapped underground while the number of people killed remains unclear. The area is in South Kivu province…