DRC natural resources review press of Thursday, June 6, 2013

Forum des As newspaper announces a denouncing of the General Inspectorate of Finance that alarm for the disappearance of $ 26 million to DGRAD. According to the tabloid, it would more accurately 26 million and $ 297 million CDN (about Usd 300,000) received in 2010 and declared DGRAD even Initiative for transparency in the extractive industries (EITI). These amounts, do you regret the IGF still found the Treasury.The newspaper reports that the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) was received from the Central Government, as part of the development of the EITI Report DRC-2010, the mission to certify that the revenue collected by the Financial Authorities had reached the Treasury . The IGF was booked and the completeness of statements DGRAD because a gap of $ 88 million had not been traced. This is also the opinion that was above the foundation of the temporary suspension of 12 months from the DRC EITI process about two months ago.

Radio Okapi in turn points to several problems on wood in Eastern Province. It first noted that the NGO "Friends of Green" deplore the scarcity of wood in the Aru, Eastern Province. According to the environmental NGOs, this is related to deforestation that prevails in this region. Its project manager indicates that the inhabitants of this territory struggling even to make wooden coffins.

As the same problem in the city of Bunia, in Eastern Province still, radio reports that during the International Environment Day, the coordination of the environment in the Ituri district presented to public This Wednesday, June 5, 20 Bunia, more than ten thousand seedlings (young plants with only a few leaves). They must be distributed to the people of Bunia and its environs for the reforestation of this city of the Eastern Province which is gradually emptied of its trees.

On the same issue of wood, civil society of Basoko territory called the company logging Forabola meet its commitments vis-à-vis the public sector Mongandjo, more than 150 km to the west Kisangani (Eastern Province). President of the civic organization said Tuesday, June 4 that local communities accuse the company immediately to build schools and health centers in quality over fifteen communities where it operates the wooden radio reports Okapi.The representative of local communities, Farabola performed less than 40% of the commitment made in its specification in conjunction with the logging in their forests. Construction remain unfinished in some sites and materials used as bricks, sheets are bad qualities, he said.

The problem also arises wood in the province of Bas-Congo where the Congolese News Agency (ACP) reports that there is a plea for the lifting of the suspension of artisanal logging in Bas-Congo and noted that the provincial government of Lower Congo, in his Cabinet, chaired last week by the governor of Matadi Jacques Mbadu nsitu, called for the lifting of the suspension of artisanal logging in this province. According to the spokesman of the provincial government, the minister in charge of Media Elie Ngoma Binda, the application seeks to end the uncontrolled exploitation of illegal wood stored in forests in Bas-Congo, despite the temporary suspension dating 2007.

In addition, in connection with the annual Forum on economic growth and governance, which opens today in Kinshasa, the Observateur newspaper talks, in an editorial, a forum to transform Congo According to the paper, this meeting which will bring together government and the World Bank, the tops of the economy, economic operators and the number of experts involved after meeting in Lubumbashi on mining assets. . During two days, the newspaper said, the national and international experts will discuss issues, directions to take, see what others are doing to try ultimately to boost reforms that can reduce poverty in the DRC of significantly. This is to be consistent with the deliberate aim that has set the government Matata Ponyo achieve by 2015, a double-digit growth.