DRC natural resources press review of Thursday, Ocober 31, 2013

On the sale of shares of Gécamines in KCC , the Potentiel newspaper believes that there was undue agitation. According to the paper , the composition of the Board of Gecamines includes a representative of the sole Shareholder State , through the Ministry of the Portfolio. This is the eye of the government in this endeavor and yet all the media said , deadpan , that the decision was taken " without the knowledge of the government" ... duly represented in the Board. For the Potentiel, a simple check to the Department of Portfolio or in the archives of Gécamines would have seen that the government was indeed aware of the whole process and its implications.The newspaper also noted that Gecamines said that, contrary to recent speculation , the process to sell 20% to anyone not even finish yet finalized and that no decision is at this level this irreversible .
 The report of the law on the electricity passed, notifies the Observateur newspaper reports that Leon Kengo wa Dondo , President of the Upper House of Parliament, yesterday chaired a plenary session Wednesday on the review of the draft law on the electricity sector . Senators present at the meeting , were unanimously adopted the report of the Committee and infrastructure planning.

Only 9 % of the population have access to electricity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Radio Okapi says noting that the senators, who reviewed the report of the Planning Committee of the territory on the draft law on the sector electricity, deplored this Wednesday, Oct. 30 . According to the media , senators also indicated that a population of about nine million to Kinshasa, the DRC capital , only 44 % receive electricity, while electricity is a major and irreversible factors economic, cultural and technological . After diagnosis in the electricity sector , the senators felt that this was mainly due to the low coverage rate and the lack of legal framework. For them , the law under review in the Senate should remedy this situation , once passed and enacted.

According to the Commission, says for its part the Potentiel newspaper, the main innovation is the liberalization of the sector to meet the desire expressed by the Constitution in Article 48 which states: " The right to adequate housing , the right to access to drinking water and electricity are guaranteed. the law establishes the procedures for the exercise of these rights. "
 Leave the issue of electricity to the water where the Avenir newspaper reports that the Steering Committee of the reform of portfolio companies ( COPIREP ), in collaboration with experts from NODALIS , whose workshop is the goal is to make a reading of the draft concession contract Regideso . This workshop takes place in Kinshasa circle which meets several experts , delegates from the Ministry of Portfolio, Electricity and Water Resources , Finance , frames Regideso , experts SDE / Finagestion those cabinet and Nodalis those COPIREP . This part of the mission of establishing a concession contract between the Congolese government and Regideso .
 The Observateur newspaper says that during the workshop, experts from various ministries, the private sector and Regideso focused on the project concocted by Nodalis consultant preparing the arrival of other stakeholders in the sector water in the DRC and the new role to be played Regideso in the new architecture of the water sector.
 A joint venture for the production of fertilizers will be created in June 2014 in Boma , in Bas -Congo , Radio Okapi announces . According to the radio , this is the result of a partnership agreement signed Tuesday, October 29 between the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) and South Africa. The total cost of this project is estimated at thirty- nine million U.S. dollars.

In this regard, the Potentiel newspaper states that is a South African firm that the DRC has set his sights for the development of phosphate deposits in the province of Bas- Congo. Ultimately, the project, the agreement was sealed last Tuesday , is the production of fertilizers to support agriculture .