DRC natural resources press review of Monday; July 8, 2013

The press today is poor information on natural resources. Note however that Radio Okapi informed that "one of the main habitats of elephants Virunga National Park is almost completely deforested in recent weeks. It is located between Kahunga and Mabenga, about 90 kilometers north of Goma in North Kivu. Some sources on site accuse local customary frameworks, in complicity with the rebels M23, organize this deforestation. "
UN radio reports that since the occupation of this part of Rutshuru territory by the rebels, officials ICCN say they do control more than 25%. Hundreds of trees whose leaves were food for the elephants were slaughtered for use in the manufacture of charcoal in the area Kahunga.
For its part, the newspaper Tempête des Tropiques announced that Joseph Kabila inaugurated on Monday in the coastal town of Moanda, in the province of Bas-Congo, DRC connection to the optical fiber.