DRC natural resources press review of Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Radio Okapi reports that the price per gram of dry gold rose from 60 to 38 U.S. dollars in the space of two months in Bunia in Eastern Province. The president of the cooperative of gold traders in Ituri (conori) Lonema Mukua stated Saturday, July 13 at a meeting with the operators in the mining sector. According to him, it is a consequence of the decline in the price of this precious material in the world. He pointed out that gold traders in Bunia experience now enormous difficulties in selling their goods on the market.In fact, traders who had bought gold at a high price, do not want to sell their goods for not working at a loss. The president of the cooperative of gold from Ituri traders explained that most of these traders are worried about the turn of events.Speaking of green development, the Prosperité newspaper announces that the Government is carbon credit and notes that: "Meeting Monday, July 15, 2013, with the Prime Minister, members of the cluster productive sector have combed through several folders likely 'rake in revenues to the DRC. Notably, the reduction of gas emissions greenhouse program and a workshop on land governance for institutions. According to the newspaper, the Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism, Bavo N'sa Mputu, presented the program to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for the districts of Plateau and Mai-Ndombe. This program, he explained, aims to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by fighting against deforestation and forest degradation, but also to increase the forest carbon stock.The newspaper l'Avenir bounces off the record to inform Sokimo than inactive for nearly three decades, the mining company Kilo-Moto (Sokimo) begins to rise from the ashes is the new time in the crosshairs of hands black scheming that its destabilization. To believe our bloodhounds, calls unjustified stoppage of work are launched in recent days, the location of the agents began to regain hope of seeing this upright former flagship of the economy of the Eastern province. Indeed, consistent reliable sources reveal that this initiative is part of undermining their own partners Sokimo unable to pay farm-rent owed to the business. Only the mining company Mining Kibale is not included in the lot of the insolvent partners.To fight against load shedding, the newspaper Potentiel reports that SNEL advocates saving electricity and wrote: "The National Electricity Company (SNEL) is stop for some time, with enormous difficulties in supply of electricity. Among the causes, we can note the low water. Experts inform that this is a very low flow increased on the Congo River, following the early cessation of rains in the western region of the country ". To build awareness about the current state of the situation as it stands at the Inga hydroelectric dam, the provincial director of Snel / Bas-Congo, Daniel Mukutu Ndombasi advises subscribers to internalize the notion of saving electrical energy. He advocated a recipe "palliative, convenient and easy." "We recommend that subscribers Snel energy saving. To do this, he said, it is recommended to turn off the lights during the day. "Forum des As newspaper reports that the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Chrysostome Vahamwiti, visited last Tuesday, July 16, 2013, the Center for rearing and training located in the territory of Kasangulu Cataractes district, in the province of Bas-Congo. This site visit was sanctioned by the ribbon cutting, a symbol of the official launch of all other centers stocking and training for fish farmers scattered across the country. For the newspaper, this gesture marks a fish business revolution that begins with Kasangulu.The newspaper explained that the nursery Kasangulu Centre is one of 25 centers in the DRC long abandoned or underutilized inherited from colonial times. Although robbed and reduced its original area that was 3 hectares, the center has 11 Kasangulu breeding ponds rehabilitated related infrastructure réfectionnées, three new production ponds built to the standards of art. It is able to produce 5 tons of catfish and tilapia fingerlings per year to plant more than 120 acres of ponds over 600 fish farmers identified