DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Potentiel newspaper reports that "the weekly meeting of the thematic group of the productive sector, held last Monday around the Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon, spoke on the implementation of the Inga hydroelectric project in the province of Bas Congo. government has promised to be more involved in this project in defending the interests of the DRC. "

On another note, the Phare newspaper publishes a text with the title "The Park 1 billion." The newspaper reports that "the Virunga National Park is Africa's oldest and one of the richest biodiversity. According to a study, its sustainable use could bring a lot of money and preserve it, but it is threatened by oil exploitation. " The text says "concessions have been granted to 85% of the territory of Virunga." However, the text also emphasizes that "put pressure on the Congolese authorities on the grounds that oil could worsen the violence would return to advise the country to stay poor to live."The Phare newspaper also reports that the problems faced in decades, local communities living in forest areas, Ecuador, and Eastern Kasai Oriental Province, found some solutions. As evidenced with a sense of satisfaction, some members of civil society, specialized in management of riparian forest peoples, discussed last week by Le Phare. And as it should be stressed the concerns of some local communities were able to find solutions with the support of the World Bank, through the "Project forests and conservation of nature" with a budget of $ 70 million and implemented by the implementing agency, the project coordination unit "PCU - Project forests and nature conservation." To believe a source close to the agency, this project, which began on September 9, 2009 in three pilot provinces, Equateur, Kasai Oriental and Kasai Oriental Province, including Salonga Sankuru Lukenie, Lake Tumba, Maringa, Wamba Lopori Ituri Epulu and Aru, is essentially improving forest governance for sustainable management of biodiversity and forest resources in order to contribute to the consolidation of macroeconomic stability and economic growth.

The same media also reports that the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights "ASADHO" denounces the acts of kidnapping, violence and assault, unlawful arrest and detention, and threats to the person of Alain Shombo PEMBE, defender of human rights, member in charge of studies of the Congolese organization Ecologists and Friends of Nature "OCEAN" acronym, by elements of the National Police and the Office of rolling II-based the town of Ngaba. Indeed, dated August 14, 2013, at approximately 11:00 am, Mr. Alain Shombo PEMBE who was taking pictures of "Mbasu" at the corner of Avenue and University Kianza, under the monitoring organized by ASADHO on road harassment in Kinshasa, was apprehended and arrested and taken to brutal police office of the municipality of NGABA by two police officers and five rolling office two in civilian clothes. At this station the police, it will be beaten and threatened before being illegally detained for three days is from 14 to 17 August 2013 by OPJ MPUTULU pretext of taking pictures in public areas without permission.