DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, October 15, 2013

" Five billion usd in the pocket Matata for Inga from Washington," as the biweekly Congo News that says " this is to materialize the project Inga III. According to the newspaper , " through the IFC , the World Bank has agreed in principle to pay this sum stupendous . "

On another matter , according to the same newspaper, a delegation of the Board of the Initiative for transparency in the extractive industries (EITI) stays in the DRC in recent days. Congo News believes that this presence is support to DRC EITI process, after several unsuccessful attempts to achieve " compliance " has been suspended temporarily last April .

For the first time in the Democratic Republic of Congo, five international NGOs present in the country for over ten years , pooling their expertise in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene, announces the Prosperité newspaper. According to this newspaper , it is the occasion of the World Day of handwashing with ACF , ACTED , CRS , Concern Worldwide and International Solidarity organized the launch of the Consortium held at the Maison de France on 15 October 2013. With initial funding from the British Cooperation ( UKaid ) 24 million pounds , the DRC WASH Consortium gives four years to promote to more than 544,000 beneficiaries of good practice in the management of access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) . This development program is implemented in coordination with other stakeholders in 17 health zones spread over six provinces : Bandundu , Equateur , Kasai Occidental , Kasai Oriental , Katanga and South Kivu . Its operations are spread over four years and organized by cycles of eighteen months the village , allowing a logical evolution and continuous learning in the program.

Arrested by soldiers for opposing the execution of a project company Soco International to Nyakakoma and kept in solitary confinement at the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in Goma (North Kivu ), the main curator of Virunga National Park , Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo , was released last week, reports radio Okapi . According to the UN Radio, this part of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature ( ICCN) has a parole after 17 days of detention. He has no right to leave the region of Goma (North Kivu ) , say NGO partners ICCN . According to them, Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo suffered threats since he opposed the proposed installation of a telephone antenna pounded by Soco International Nyakakoma in the park .
Radio Okapi reports that the production of rice Isangi (Eastern Province) increased from 75 000 tonnes in 2012 to over 100 000 tonnes this year. According to the radio , these figures were announced Monday, Oct. 14 by the territorial agriculture inspector at the time of distribution of 14 tons of rice seeds to nearly five hundred households in this area. This assistance was provided by the provincial government for the 2013-2014 crop year. The inspector territorial agriculture Isangi says that rice production increased by almost 50% over the last three years in this part of the country with the su