DRC natural resources review press of Monday, June 24, 2013

The spokesman of Government and Media Minister Lambert Mende Omalanga met with the press Saturday, June 22, 2013 and it was also about the Amnesty International report on violations of human rights in Congolese mines. According to the Forum des As newspaper, Lambert Mende said that the report is too focused. Recall that the Amnesty International report, dated June 19, 2013 and entitled "Profit and Loss" has reported serious human rights abuses in the Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly in Katanga. According to the report, the Congolese authorities would do nothing to prevent the mining companies and merchants to violate fundamental human rights. And the daily reports that the minister Mende. "The first thing to say in this regard is that the Government has taken note of these serious charges is concerned about the situation of minors as reflected in this report, however, important to note that comparing the information relayed by Amnesty International with those at our disposal, we are struck by the targeted nature of the report too. Indeed, as so aptly noted an expert mining division of the Province of Katanga, "How is it that all mining companies scour Katanga, only Chinese companies are accused about the problems faced by artisanal miners? Mining companies operating in Katanga indeed belong to thirty different nationalities. None of 'they offer to employees and customers different conditions of Chinese companies. Nothing could justify the fury of China alone in this regard. Especially this solidarity expressed today by Amnesty International does not observed while they lived far worse situations before and after independence. "
     "All indications are that the multiple pressures on President Joseph Kabila to bring it to scale down the volume of commercial and industrial undertakings between the DRC and China have fizzled, interest groups likely to use international NGOs such as Amnesty International, which seems to have decided to put on the credibility scale. This is a shame because this is a case of unfair competition is not due to chance when our country is once again the first producer World cobalt ", the paper said. Commenting on the same subject without comment, the Phare daily as too "Lambert Mende denounced the report focused too Amnesty International" On another issue, the Potentiel  newspaper looks at the  transport system and export oil Rift basin of the DRC and announced that the "pipeline Lake Albert Indian Ocean: Oil DRC pilot lobbying the authorities" . The newspaper pointed out that the challenge of producing crude rhymes with export at competitive prices. One does not lead effectively without the other and notes: "For this reason, the Oil Ministry has closely monitored the project on the transport system and export oil Rift basin in the DRC the Indian Ocean.'s event at the Hotel Sultani had as main actor Oil DRC active on the Albertine Graben. Firm informs the authorities about the relevance of this project to make the Congolese crude term competitive". The tabloid states that "studies show that it would be buried more than 10 billion barrels of oil in the three basins of Lake Albert, Kivu and Tanganyika. At least 10 billion barrels of oil in each of the three basins", estimated to be. Referring to the close of the second edition of the Fair Green Economy (FEVERT) held at the Botanical Gardens in Kinshasa from 18 to 21 June 2013, the Potentiel newspaper reports that "the second edition was a momentous for exhibitors who have appropriated the concept of the green economy as an engine of sustainable development "