DRC natural resources review press of Friday, May 31, 2013

"Minaku ordered to deliver Kabwelulu within 48 hours," it's with this title that the biweekly Congo News reports that "here is more than two weeks since the no confidence motion against Germain KAMBINGA the Minister of Mines, Martin Kabwelulu, has not been subject to review by the Plenary of National Assembly. For a motion on May 13 at the office of the National Assembly with acknowledgment to the support, the members ought to debate and vote the fate of the minister arrested within 48 hours as required by the rules. According to the signatories of the motion, the burdens of various kinds have that Aubin Minaku froze to put the issue on the agenda . Some even speak of pressure from the Palace of the Nation, arguing that they have heard closer to Minaku ". The signatories believe that "if Minaku has not done in 48 hours, is that it seeks to cover the Mafia a minister of the most corrupt."

The same Congo News states that "mining giant and giant humanitarian TFM pushed the waterborne disease in Katanga" and explains that some rural communities, including Tenke and Fungurume area of ​​operation of the giant TFM, have nothing to envy the major urban areas of the DRC. With a supply of more than 2 million 300 liters of drinking water per day in its rural communities, will be green with envy cities like Kinshasa and Lubumbashi where some neighborhoods remain several weeks or months deprived of the precious liquid. Consequently, diarrheal diseases, which mow down young children for the most part, a thing of the past.

In another subject, the newspaper the Potentiel reports "the serie Huachin Mining: the ONGDH a Kind" and indicates that about the case of the company "Huaching Mining" associations human rights s 'in the mix and vigorously denounced by a letter from the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH association) with respect to: "A Maffio-judicial cabal and denial of justice against the company Huaching MiniG". The newspaper published the entire letter.

For its part, the newspaper L'Avenir announces that "the National Assembly, members vote article by article the bill on the Conservation of Nature and indicates that after its referral to the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources be careful, the bill on the Conservation of Nature is examined section by section with amendments adopted yesterday at the National Assembly. This is a bill that contains 75 articles, 15 of which have only been examined During the plenary yesterday.The daily notes that several amendments were made in connection with the terms and definitions in this field. It should be noted for example that some amendments related to the conservation of nature instead of forest conservation. Nature integrates biotic aspects, that is to say, living and abiotic nonliving aspects integrating other elements to broaden the scope for conservation. For example, habitat loss, desertification and climate change should be added that the Commission is limited to deforestation.

On the same issue, the newspaper Forum des AS notes that the draft law on nature conservation defines the conditions for access to biological resources in the DRC.