Category: Mining Personality

The Regional Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Central and West Africa, Jean Bakole was received Thursday April 01, 2021 by Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge. At the end of the hearing, Jean Bakole said that this meeting with the Prime Minister made it possible to analyze the possibilities of creating industries for the local transformation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We discussed the appropriate strategies to engage the country in the local transformation of natural resources and the diversification of… Read More Here

TANTALEX Resources Corporation (CSE:TTX) – (CNSX:TTX.CN) – (FSE:1T0) (“TANTALEX” or the “Corporation”), is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Yves Kabongo to its Board of Directors. Mr. Kabongo will also take on the role of Special Advisor, DRC Government Liaison Affairs. Mr. KABONGO is a Congolese native with strong experience in directorship and management of Canadian, International and Congolese public companies. He previously lived in Canada for 12 years where he studied Mathematics for Commerce at York University in Toronto. In 2015, he returned to DRC where he co-founded Belair African Metals Sarl,… Read More Here

The appointment on Monday of Sama Lukonde Kyenge, the director general of Gecamines and ally of the president, should help Tshisekedi install a more loyal cabinet to push through his agenda. Former Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, a close confidant of Kabila, resigned from the post on January 28 following a vote of no confidence in the country’s parliament. It came amid an intensifying power struggle that saw Tshisekedi announcing in December he wanted to break free of a power-sharing deal with Kabila he had entered in the aftermath of a widely… Read More Here

Akon Goes into the Mining Sector in the DRC Hip hop artist Akon has launched yet another business endeavour on the African continent. This time the impressive undertaking is in the mining industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo as he has signed a deal to finance a copper and cobalt mine in the central African country in a joint venture with a state miner. The Senegalese star is delving into the sector by way of the firm White Waterfall LLC which is registered in the United States and sees… Read More Here

The governor of the Central Bank of Congo (BCC), Déogratias Mutombo Mwana Nyembo, in a congratulatory message to Félix Tshisekedi, wished him a “fruitful mandate” as President of the African Union. The boss of the BCC implores in favor of the new president of this pan-African organization “the accompaniment of Almighty God” in his new responsibilities in the best interests of Africans. Note that the Central Bank is the economic and financial adviser to the government. As a result, this institution, through its expertise, is ready to make a contribution during… Read More Here

The Copperbelt Katanga Mining team congratulates Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on his appointment as the new Chairman of the African Union for the year 2021.President Tshisekedi takes over from Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of the Republic of South Africa, who has completed his year-long term as Chairman.The African Union is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for… Read More Here