DRC natural resources press review of Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The government will require international expertise to investigate the pollution of soil and watercourses and Kambove Likasi in Katanga province . The Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism , Bavo N'Samputu announced Monday, Feb. 17 during his stay in Likasi , informs Radio Okapi. He assured that in case of pollution, those responsible will be punished in accordance with Congolese law on the environment. According Bavo N'Sa Mputu international expertise will assess the level of environmental destruction . The central government had sent a mission in these two entities after the NGO Umoja fourteen accused mining companies pollute the environment , last October.
As part of the implementation of the Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment Sector ( ESESS ) Promines organized the workshop restitution of the study on sectoral Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment , Friday 14/ 02 / 2014 Kinshasa, reports the Agency Ecofin . Indeed , according to the implementation plan Promines project , evaluation of the impacts of mining on the socio -economic and environmental situation in the DRC was necessary in order to limit the negative aspects and optimize socio- environmental benefits , with the involvement of all stakeholders.

" Traffic animal species in eastern DRC The UN sanctions brandished against armed groups," informs l'Avenir noting that the United Nations threatens to punish all armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic Congo , which attack animals to finance their operations . This is indicated by a dispatch from the UN published yesterday in the site Africatime . The UN states that the individuals involved will be subject to travel bans and freezes their assets. The Council resolution also renewed the UN embargo on weapons sold to various militias in the country. The United Nations and want to alert traffic of ivory, become an important source of funding for armed militias , causing a depletion of elephants in the DRC.

The Congolese News Agency (ACP ) reports that a project to support the manufacture of fertilizers was launched Tuesday in Kinshasa for the market gardeners working in the communes of Lemba , Matete and Mont Ngafula at the initiative of an NGO called " Association for the promotion of social and agricultural initiatives ( APISA ) headed by Beatrice Badingidila . The project includes providing compost for gardeners to enable them to improve their production , said the president of the association , adding that these fertilizers will be collected at the municipal market Matete where its headquarters issue contribute also environmental sanitation , has she said.

Six people died of canine rabies about fifty recorded in one week in the territory of Cabinda and Lubao , district of Cabinda ( Kasai Oriental ), indicates Radio Okapi. The doctor in charge of epidemiological case in this district has delivered these figures in a report published Monday, February 17 . According to the report , the relatives of the deceased torched six houses belonging to the owners of dogs Cabinda , and 5 other houses in Lubao . Twenty people have fled their homes to escape the repression of the families of victims Kabinda and Lubao