DRC natural resources press review of Monday, November 4, 2013

The Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism noted weaknesses in the latest report by Global Witness, announces Potentiel which indicates that Tegmeyer Reiner , who made the presentation , had a working session stormy with leaders of the Ministry of Environment . SO, the minister's Bavo N'Sa Mputu the line . For them, the title of this report suggests itself , a problem . "Pretending that - 90% of public funds absent taxes - while the study was based on the tax area , ignoring all others is superbly unacceptable because not consistent with reality." In response, Reiner Tegmeyer Global Witness argues that it was " impossible to work on other taxes to the extent that there are no statistics ." Hence the conclusion to show that the report was not conducted in order to integrate all the elements. Consequences , it is argued in the corridors of the Ministry of Environment , the tendentious title and what it suggests do not fit into reality on the ground . "
" The national deputy Juvenal Munubo met head-to - head MEP Judith Sargentini on the evening of Tuesday, October 29 at the hotel Ihusi in Goma, North Kivu province ," informs Dia Catholic Agency indicating that "the deputy came to Goma accompany the Episcopal Commission for Natural Resources ( CERN ) in advocating its action against the conflict minerals and exploitation of natural resources for the benefit of local populations. According to the agency , Juvenal Munobo , among others, shows his interlocutor the merits of adopting a European law against the mineral trade in connection with the armed conflict.

The mining sector , the Congolese News Agency ( ACP ) reports that thirty mining companies operating in Katanga province are ordered to report their payments on behalf of the State and present their audit forms . Mr. Jeremiah Mack Dumba , National Coordinator of the Initiative for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI ) made ​​this statement Thursday governorate province at the end of an audience granted to him by Mr. Moses Katumbi , Governor of Katanga. He said that by their behavior , these companies may jeopardize the chances of the DRC to present time a 2011 EITI report on its accession to become fully compliant . The non- presentation of the 2011 EITI report expose the DRC to the final removal of the EITI, with social , economic and political very negative consequences , said the national coordinator of the EITI.

In the Eastern Province , the prosecution of First Instance in Bunia , Ituri , Saturday, Nov. 2 rejected the complaint of the mining company Ashanti Goldfields Kilo ( AGK ) against the mining Cooperative Development ( Coomid ), another mining company , reports radio Okapi . AGK , a company born of the Attached venture between Kilo Moto Mining Company with the South African Anglogold Ashanti , accused there two weeks Coomid operate illegally for gold in its concession. This has led to the preventive seizure of heavy machinery Coomid . Prosecutors in Bunia finally found this unfounded accusation . The complaint AGK was supported by the Government of the Eastern Province which , in turn , accused the League of Kilomoto gold mines ( Sokimo ) unlawfully transferred to a mining concession Coomid already leased by AGK . The Sokimo , meanwhile , explained that Coomid is legally installed in one of its mining perimeters .
In South Kivu , the company Banro will start in mid- November 2013 the exploration on the mine site Mukungwe , which was recently granted him by the Congolese government to the detriment of artisanal miners in the Walungu phase, signals UN radio . The announcement was made Wednesday, October 30 at the first meeting between representatives of Banro and those of the local community, in the context of compensation for artisanal miners and families involved in the operation of this site and the time comes, should be relocated . The representative of the local community Mushinga said that the presence of Banro should first help restore social peace after the many conflicts generated by artisanal mining site Mukungwe in the middle.