DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Prosperité published the press release of the meeting of the troika strategic of DRC Government held Monday, February 24, 2014 and where you can read these excerpts: " The commodity prices mainly exported by the DRC showed a divergent trend While . copper prices rose 0.40 % to settle at $ 7,184.50 , against $ 7,156.00 a week earlier , the cobalt remained at $ 31,707.90 per tonne level this week . previous Regarding petroleum products , there is an increase both in the London market as one in New York, where prices are respectively presented as follows: $ 109.83 ( 0.67 %) and $ 102.38 ( 2.38 %) as regards the main cereal products , their prices are up compared to the previous week . $ 166.73 ( 3.16 %) for maize , $ 15.82 ( +0.38 %) for rice and $ 615.50 ( 3.84 %) for wheat.

In another area , that of the environment, Potentiel quotes the professor Dieudonné Musibono Eyul , Doctor of Sciences Environment Group , option Eco -toxicology and head of the Department of Environment to Unikin , who face the serious threat of pollution of environmental ecology , particularly in mining areas and major Congolese cities , believes that " the State must urgently enact legislation on environmental pollution in the DRC ."
The same media also reports that environmental NGOs are school -based management results and thanks to the training organized by the Kinshasa full support and community development ( CADIC ) Committee , with the support SGP / GEF for five days from the date of last Monday, February 24 . Depending on the potential , in his opening remarks , the representative of the Secretary General for the Environment, Gilbert Kilola , cited objectives of the workshop, namely to allow a dozen NGO beneficiaries to understand the relevance of using managing for results ; master the practical use of tools for managing for results in the programming, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of projects.Forum des As leads in Agriculture and rural development where the daily information that the Minister Jean -Chrysostome Vahamwiti participated on 19 and 20 February in Rome , Italy in the 37th session of Governors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Ministers of Agriculture of the 173 member countries of the Fund assuming the duties of Governors - country . According to the newspaper , taking advantage of its participation in this meeting of the Italian capital , the Minister Vahamwiti focused on the opportunities of the National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP ) , including a framework for mobilizing agricultural investors, agro parks -industrial , resumption of agricultural activity in areas of North Kivu and the availability of the DRC to accommodate investors in the agricultural sector.

For its part, the Congolese News Agency (ACP ) focuses on energy and reported that the President of the Republic , Joseph Kabila, has made ​​Sunday " a technical visit and inspection " of the construction by Chinese society SYNOHYDRO of Zongo II hydroelectric dam in the province of Bas- Congo. The President of the Republic , who had in his suite MM . Bruno Kapandji Kalala and Eric Mbala , respectively Minister of Water Resources and Electric and CEO of the National Electricity Company (SNEL ) , visited alternately , armored gallery as well as manufacturing and installation of turbines and other accessories. Built on Inkisi River, Zongo II hydroelectric dam will have a capacity of 150 MW , with a factory of three machines of 50 MW each