DRC natural resources press review of Thursday, August 29, 2013

End of the mission in the DRC, Thabo Mbeki, personality at the head of the mission of a High Level Group on illicit financial flows (IFF ) has indexed particularly the Congolese mining sector. According to this group , mining is central to illicit financial flows in the DRC, the Potentiel newspaper announces. The daily said that the delegation of Thabo Mbeki, which receives technical support from the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA), is in the DRC as part of a campaign across Africa to reach to end the scourge of illegal transfers of huge sums of money from the mainland . Experts consider this as a major cause of the delay that accuses Africa on the path of socio-economic transformation . According to the newspaper , the team of CEA , who heads the secretariat of the Panel took the opportunity to emphasize the nature of illicit capital . These include bribes , kickbacks and other forms of corruption involving officials , criminal activities such as drug trafficking and money laundering, and fraudulent business transactions such as tax evasion, distortion money transfer fees and billing ( including transnational corporations ) . " Thabo Mbeki has said that his team will make recommendations on measures to stop the illegal transfer of funds from Africa and orchestrate the return of these funds , based on the experiences of the countries visited ," the paper notes
.A day of reflection on the revision of the draft report of the scoping study  EITI (Initiative  transparency in the extractive industries ) in the DRC for the year 2011 was held on Tuesday , August 27 at Lubumbashi ( Katanga ) . Radio Okapi reports that this information indicates that representatives of mining companies , members of civil society and those of the central and provincial governments have made proposals to be submitted in December 2013 at the direction of this institution for the lifting of the suspension of the DRC. In April, the country had been suspended for one year of the EITI.

Remain in the mining sector where support for good governance in the mining sector ( PROMINES ) Project organized the workshop and pre- validation workshop of Audit of the institutional and organizational framework for the mining sector from Thursday, August 29 2013 until September 4, 2013 in Kinshasa.. For the Phare newspaper , this session aims to enable all stakeholders (government , technical and financial partners , civil society) , to make an inventory of duties , skills and resources of each institution involved in the mining sector . This in order to propose practical solutions to improve efficiency , transparency and ensure their sustainability . Reporting the same information , the Potentiel newspaper highlights that the main objective for this meeting is to produce an action plan for the implementation of the recommendations at the end of that audit.

The Phare newspaper also reports that the heritage Kivu Maniema Gold Corporation ( SAKIMA ), a subsidiary of a Belgian- Zairian company entered in Congolese law, mining in the former Kivu ( Sominki ) between 1928 and 1997 , was vandalized by unidentified uncivil . The paper recalls : " once With a modern infrastructure assets and therefore , including electromechanical workshops, laboratories , well-equipped office , a geological museum among the richest in the country , a park in scrap valuable , tracks and rural roads impassable , a dozen airfields and several hydroelectric plants with the largest is called the Kalima Rusthurukuru in Pangi and the Ambwe in the Kailo , all these goods are now being vandalized in the total indifference of the authorities . "

Referring to the issue of agriculture , the Potentiel newspaper reported that full modernization , the Congolese agricultural sector is now open to emerging countries. This is the result of the participation of the Minister of Agriculture Jean -Chrysostome Vahamuiti the second joint meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of South of the Sahara with Argentina.