DRC Launches Workshop to Strengthen Mining Governance and Promote Local Value
Democratic Republic of Congo Advances Mining Governance with National Dialogue Workshop
The Congolese mining sector is gaining renewed momentum. On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, Minister of Mines Louis Watum Kabamba officially launched a workshop aimed at presenting, consolidating, and adopting recommendations from the national dialogue on mining governance.
Organized by the Crisis Committee for Peace and Security (CCPS-DRC) with technical and financial support from German cooperation (GIZ), the two-day workshop seeks to ensure effective ownership of the dialogue’s conclusions and establish a foundation for inclusive, sustainable, and transparent mining governance.
In his opening address, Minister Watum emphasized the vision of President Félix Tshisekedi, who sees the mining sector as a lever for peace, prosperity, and national sovereignty.
He also praised Prime Minister Judith Suminwa’s leadership, highlighting the need to transform mineral resources into drivers of development rather than sources of conflict.
Minister Watum’s Key Commitments
The Minister outlined several concrete measures to strengthen governance in the sector:
Combating fraud and corruption;
Enhancing transparency and traceability of minerals;
Digitalizing the Mining Cadastre;
Ensuring equitable redistribution of mining revenues to local communities;
Promoting local processing to increase national value addition.
The workshop’s conclusions will feed directly into ongoing reforms, providing a clear roadmap for responsible, transparent, and inclusive mining governance that benefits the Congolese people and supports regional stability.
Through this initiative, Minister Watum aims to revitalize the DRC’s extractive sector, placing good governance, local value creation, and sustainability at the heart of his strategy.
