DRC natural resources press review of Monday, February 24, 2014

Nearly three weeks marked by extreme heat and dust of any kind drought put the uncomfortable Kinshasa . The rain has just fallen in Kinshasa. This suggests at the end of the heat. We recall in this regard that there is a week, the top management of SNEL ( Société Nationale d'Electricité ) announced severe power cuts due to the decline of the river , causing the famous problem of low water that the country has at times in recent years, inform the Phare. The daily adds . " Situation having an impact on the flow of the Congo River, which is no longer able to make the turbines Inga hydroelectric dam normally turn in the province of Bas- Congo This lack of rainfall situation during close three weeks was indeed observed in several provinces, including the city of Kinshasa , Bas- Congo ( province are erected facilities Inga ) , Bandundu , Equateur and Orientale province . some experts, the challenge that faces the Snel is not only related to the drought. It is also due to the inability of the company is digging out for the Congo River. A job that requires the use of dredges for to remedy the situation. It is important to note that this is the first time that the National Electricity Company announces disruptions related to power low flow during early dry season. Often this crisis of water Inga is experienced during the second part of the long dry season which begins around May 15 of each year. It is hoped that the likely return of the rains as announced yesterday, Sunday in the capital, SNEL will resume normal electric power supply of its subscribers . "
Leave the Congo River to Lake Tanganyika where Radio Okapi reports that hippos from the lake regularly invade four riparian areas in Uvira , over 120 km south of Bukavu, in South Kivu. By population, these pachyderms away about a mile from Lake Tanganyika , for more than a week to invade night Kilibula , Nyamianda , Kalundu Kasenga Kahorohoro and neighborhoods. They particularly devastated fields of cassava and sweet potatoes along Lake Tanganyika. According to local sources , more than three acres of corn planting were ravaged by hippos Kahorohoro neighborhood last week . Head for the neighborhood Kilibula Agnes Shagayo , its people are afraid to travel at night , afraid of being attacked by these animals. Local residents Kalundu , near Lake Tanganyika , have suffered several attacks last week of these behemoths .
The same media also reports that five days of the opening of the fishing Katanga provincial inspection of agriculture , livestock and fisheries regrets that the suspension of work decided last December was not respected parts of the province. Each year , the provincial authorities decide the closure of the fishery to allow fish reproduction . But this closure is not always respected. In the territories of Kasenga and Pweto , military and land chiefs are accused of collaborating with fishermen to organize a clandestine fishing during the closure

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants to stay in the treads of the first African countries struggling to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). To do this, the government, with support from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF ) organized , Friday, February 21, 2014 in the conference hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kinshasa , a validation workshop of SO -PIN revised version, reports Prosperité . According to the newspaper , these studies , which lasted one day, showed the presence of 150 participants from central government, the provincial government of Bandundu , national and local NGOs, development partners and international NGOs . This national overhaul of the ER- PIN REDD + follows the observations and recommendations were made ​​by the participants at the 7th session of the Committee of Participants Carbon Fund Forest Carbon Partnership (CP / FCPF ) Fund World Bank , which was held in June 2013 in Paris ( France ) . Opened by Bavo N'Sa Mputu Elima , Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism, this working session led to the validation of the revision of the ER- PIN . There are only a defense with the Carbon Fund of the World Bank , the month of April 2014

For its part, the provincial government of South Kivu handed , Friday, Feb. 21 , two tons of healthy cassava cuttings to 1900 farmers Shabunda and surrounding relays Radio Okapi. According to the agricultural inspector Shabunda staffing these cutting,s to farmers is to fight against food insecurity. According to the same source , the goal is to enable these farmers to harvest cassava six months after each culture.