DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The Swiss Association Track Impunity Always ( Trial) accuses the company Argo- Heraeus SA have refined nearly 3 tons of gold looted between 2004 and 2005 by an armed group in Ituri (Eastern Province) , announces radio Okapi . To believe the association, the fundamentalist nationalist militia (FNI ) financed their activities through the gold trade. This gold worth about $ 40 million was looted in a gold mining concession near the town of Mongbwalu , 80 km north of Bunia in Ituri. This concession was controlled by the militia . Counsel for Trial, gold refining provided by an armed group is considered by the Swiss Penal Code as a war crime and should be punished to fight against the financing of armed conflicts.
The same media also reports that besides the 3rd Forum of the Chamber of Mines of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo ( FEC ) on the revision of the mining code, the Director General of Kibale Glodmines revealed to Radio Okapi the seizure of 180 kg of gold by Kenyan police in Nairobi Tuesday, October 29 . According to him, this package is estimated at about 8 million U.S. dollars. The Director General of Kibale Glodmines Louis Watum said that package was simply struck by lack of information. Kibale Glodmines conducts necessary steps to settle the situation
In the same order , Radio Okapi reports that six people were arrested Sunday, Nov. 3 villages Mwalaba and cooperative in the territory of Kasenga Katanga. They are accused of illegal logging , in connivance with some Chinese subjects . The provincial Environment Minister believes it is time to end this phenomenon deprives the Katanga provincial govern means of its policy. Action hailed by civil society Katanga .
 To put an end to the plundering of natural resources , during an intervention in a round table in Bonn, Germany , Prof. Bali Barume gave a brief overview of the certification of natural resources in the DRC and Rwanda . According Forum des As which announcing the information , the teacher believes that the certification process minerals in the DRC and Rwanda is possible.
 On another topic , the biweekly Maximum reports that the Chamber of Mines of the Federation of Enterprises of Congo ( FEC ) voted for a slight change in the tax under the Mining Code of the DRC , being revised in order to maintain trend growth in the mining sector since 2002 .
 The Directorate-General of the League of gold mines of Kilo- Moto ( Sokimo ) develops a new vision on the actual recovery of the company, its activities for disabled in the wars that have plunged the eastern DRC in various violence writes that indicates Potentiel today, thanks to agreements signed in the Kibale Moto Goldmines project in the Gold Group , Kibale with Randgold and AngloGold Ashanti Ashanti Kilo in the Group, the top of the tunnel is in sight. And Sokimo rises .

The same media reports that the European Union does not want to answer the DRC conspicuously absent at the 19th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held from November 11 to 22, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. And the Potentiel to pose this question: " Brazil, Congo and Malaysia not they are unavoidable environmental powers in negotiations that affect climate change ? "