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Katanga

Congo-Kinshasa: Tension Rises in Katanga Town

Posted to the web 28 August 2008 Kinshasa Human rights and local government officials in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province have expressed concern about rising tension between different communities in a mining...

Katanga Project Update and 2Q 2008 Financials

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Katanga Mining Limited (TSX:KAT) ("Katanga" or the "Company") today gives a project update and announces its financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2008. Musonoie-T17 produced 103,791 tonnes...

8. Tracking Congo's misery

I was panting in Congo's equatorial heat, but I saw something that gave me goose bumps. The stark contrast between my mother's genteel stories and the ghastly reality of today's Congo was chilling. In four years of covering...

Lubumbashi - Journalists Informed On the Progress of the Electoral Process

On 31 July 2008 at MONUC offices in Lubumbashi, forty journalists representing various local media took part in an information meeting on the progress of the electoral process in Katanga province. The meeting was organised by...

Congo-Kinshasa: Salesian Named Coadjutor in Lubumbashi

Posted to the web 4 August 2008 Vatican The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga S.D.B. of Uvira as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi, the country's second largest city, in the southeast. The...

Doubts persist on Congo's debt

Jul 31, 2008

The Democratic Republic of Congo has defended the $8bn (€5bn, £4bn) deal it signed with China to exchange commodities for vital infrastructure, writes Tom Burgis in Lubumbashi. After a recent meeting with ministers in Kinshasa,...

Copper colony in Congo

There is potentially enormous mineral wealth in the DRC province of Katanga. In exchange, investors from all over the world, and especially China, are prepared to offer money and infrastructure to revive the DRC after 15...

DR Congo: Mapping conflict motives - Katanga update, Dec 2007- May 2008

Jun 26, 2008

By Steven Spittaels & Nick Meynen Introduction In this second update there are two central issues. A first is the precarious security situation in the North of the province. The Northern territories of Nyunzu and Kalemie are...

Mr. Doss Makes First Official Visit to Katanga

Mr. Alan Doss, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, made his first official visit on 20-21 June 2008 to Lubumbashi, capital of Katanga province, since taking up his duties as head of the United...

Congo-Kinshasa: Monuc Supports Campaign to Reissue Voter Registration Cards

A campaign to collect and reissue voter registration cards, undertaken by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in collaboration with MONUC's electoral division began on 10 June 2008 in Kalemie, Katanga province. The goal...

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Lubumbashi , Kolwezi , Likasi , Kalemie