DRC natural resources review press of Monday, June 17, 2013

The series on the no-confidence motion against the Minister of Mines of the National Assembly and coinage confidence motions continues. "The MLC Germain KAMBINGA defends" the newspaper said the Phare notes: "For Germain KAMBINGA, if the President of the National Assembly is seized by a motion of no confidence and the author come to remove the sly in as an authority exercising police debates and being representative to third parties of this room, it has a duty to examine the line since it deals with an interesting sensitive material throughout the nation and foreign investors. goes to the credibility of the room, to the extent Aubin Minaku should behave as a church in the village and a prosecutor charged with maintaining order and morality. "

The tri-weekly AfricaNews reveals his side as "Kabwelulu had refused to receive KAMBINGA" and writes: "Well informed sources claim that KAMBINGA has indeed initiated several attempts, through intermediaries, to sell its advanced motion Kabwelulu Amount:. USD 200,000 folded to 60,000 with a deposit of 40,000. Some sources very aware of the actions of the minister indicate KAMBINGA Kabwelulu booked a suite of inadmissibility to the mafia approach and refused to receive the same author of the motion in person. "

Before the light is made of the motion of no confidence against the Minister of Mines Forum des As newspaper announces that the international NGO "Global Witness", specializing in issues of illegal exploitation of resources, published its report on the Gold traffic chief of armed groups in the Kivus. The M23, a rebel movement sponsored by Rwanda, there is sticky. In North Kivu, the rebels employ illegal gold they export traffic from neighboring countries. This product is illegal, however, says "Global Witness", bought by multinationals that do not bother traceability. While there is a lot of blood minerals like diamonds of the rebellion in Sierra Leone where the former Liberian President Charles Taylor is convicted by the Special Court of Sierra Leone to 30 years in prison.

For its part, the Ecofin Agency reports that the gold mine of Kibale, DR Congo, is one of the largest in the world, with an estimated more than 10 million ounces of gold reserves. Tractafric equipment (Optorg group), a leading equipment in Central Africa and Morocco, was asked to deliver, install and commission 40 Caterpillar machinery for the operation of the mine. The fleet consists mainly of the last truck Caterpillar 777G and 992K models D9R, 16M, 834H, 390, 336, 996H and TH414. Tractafric was also commissioned to provide fleet maintenance (technical assistance, spare ...) with a team dedicated, detached on the site.

 On another issue, the Congolese News Agency (ACP) reports for his part that "Okapi 30 were killed in the Abumumbazi reserve Gbadolite" and stressed that the absence of guards contribute to increased poaching in the reserve Abumumbazi of North Ubangi (Ecuador). The director of the botanical and zoological garden Gbadolite Katerius Mafoto announced the organization of a thorough investigation to take stock of the exact status of this endangered species whose population is not known, and stressed that poachers from Gemena kill five to ten per month Okapi made despite awareness among farmers for the protection of the protected, the only one in the world who lives in the DRC case. Poachers taking advantage of the lack of guards in the reserve to knock down Okapi sell their meat on the market pretending to that of the bongo antelope, he says. Preliminary investigations in 2008 in North Ubangi have detected the presence of the Okapi Reserve in this Abumumbazi. It contains nine sites are also full of giraffes. In June 2012, the men of the militia leader Morgan had killed fifteen Okapi in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Epulu (Eastern Province).