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Highlights:
• Noël Litanga officially appointed coordinator of the PATN on July 11 in Kinshasa• $500M funding from the World Bank and French Development...
Access to financing, housing shortage, electrification, agriculture… Regional representative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for the...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has a new face in Washington. On June 10, President Félix Tshisekedi appointed Yvette Ngandu Kapinga as the country’s...
Pascal Agboyibor, a Franco-Togolese business lawyer, has been appointed as one of the 22 members of the strategic coordination unit overseeing the mining...
Former Congolese Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo was sentenced on May 20, 2025, to 10 years of hard labor and five years of deprivation of access to...
Kory Webster is the new CEO of Africell DRC, the Congolese subsidiary of US-based Africell Group. In a press release dated May 19, 2025, the group...
The city of Kinshasa has taken a bold regulatory step in the urban transport sector. On July 14, 2025, the provincial Minister of Transport and Urban...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering a partnership with commercial banks to help finance end-of-career benefits for civil servants eligible for...
Highlights:
• Loncor Gold has received a non-binding, unsolicited proposal from a third-party investor.• A special committee has been appointed to...
Highlights:
• Price of a 50kg cement bag drops from 60,000 FC to 31,000–33,000 FC• Supply disruptions caused by May–June truckers' strike now resolved•...
• Dan Gertler’s testimony details secretive payments and complex asset structures that enabled private — and often foreign — interests to control the...
• Virunga Energies increases power capacity to 42 MW with new turbine.• The company serves over 35,000 customers across North Kivu.• Rwanguba project...
Congolese authorities have begun construction on the 160-kilometer Likasi-Solwezi road, a project expected to significantly boost trade between the...
The Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a 2% tax on imported goods to fund its universal healthcare program. Food and agricultural products will...
• CMOC increased DRC cobalt production to 61,073 tonnes in the first half of 2025, up 13% year-on-year.• Cobalt exports remain frozen under a government...
CrossBoundary Energy (CBE), a developer of distributed renewable energy solutions, announced on July 14, 2025, it secured a $60 million loan from...
Kamoa Copper, owner of the Kamoa-Kakula copper complex, signed a sales contract with Swiss trader Trafigura to sell 20% of the copper anode output from...
BUSINESS CLIMATE
Underlining his concern over the increasing reliance on foreign labor in major investment projects, President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi ordered the...
On July 1, 2025, DRC’s Minister of Hydrocarbons, Aimé Sakombi Molendo, issued an order that puts subcontracting and service provision in the hydrocarbons...
Council of Ministers approves decree to restructure DR Congo’s Competition Commission.
The decree drastically redefines the status,...
The Congolese government plans to create two new financial institutions: a deposit and consignment fund (CDC) and a development bank. Finance Minister...
Since June 29, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) enforces mandatory source inspections for all imported goods. Under new regulations, suppliers...
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The city of Kinshasa has taken a bold regulatory step in the urban transport sector. On July 14, 2025, the provincial Minister of Transport and Urban...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering a partnership with commercial banks to help finance end-of-career benefits for civil servants eligible for...
Highlights:
• Loncor Gold has received a non-binding, unsolicited proposal from a third-party investor.• A special committee has been appointed to...
Highlights:
• Price of a 50kg cement bag drops from 60,000 FC to 31,000–33,000 FC• Supply disruptions caused by May–June truckers' strike now resolved•...
• Dan Gertler’s testimony details secretive payments and complex asset structures that enabled private — and often foreign — interests to control the...
• Virunga Energies increases power capacity to 42 MW with new turbine.• The company serves over 35,000 customers across North Kivu.• Rwanguba project...
Congolese authorities have begun construction on the 160-kilometer Likasi-Solwezi road, a project expected to significantly boost trade between the...
The Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a 2% tax on imported goods to fund its universal healthcare program. Food and agricultural products will...
• CMOC increased DRC cobalt production to 61,073 tonnes in the first half of 2025, up 13% year-on-year.• Cobalt exports remain frozen under a government...
CrossBoundary Energy (CBE), a developer of distributed renewable energy solutions, announced on July 14, 2025, it secured a $60 million loan from...
Kamoa Copper, owner of the Kamoa-Kakula copper complex, signed a sales contract with Swiss trader Trafigura to sell 20% of the copper anode output from...
HEADLINERS
Highlights:
• Noël Litanga officially appointed coordinator of the PATN on July 11 in Kinshasa• $500M funding from the World Bank and French Development...
Access to financing, housing shortage, electrification, agriculture… Regional representative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for the...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has a new face in Washington. On June 10, President Félix Tshisekedi appointed Yvette Ngandu Kapinga as the country’s...
Pascal Agboyibor, a Franco-Togolese business lawyer, has been appointed as one of the 22 members of the strategic coordination unit overseeing the mining...
Former Congolese Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo was sentenced on May 20, 2025, to 10 years of hard labor and five years of deprivation of access to...
Kory Webster is the new CEO of Africell DRC, the Congolese subsidiary of US-based Africell Group. In a press release dated May 19, 2025, the group...
BUSINESS CLIMATE
Underlining his concern over the increasing reliance on foreign labor in major investment projects, President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi ordered the...
On July 1, 2025, DRC’s Minister of Hydrocarbons, Aimé Sakombi Molendo, issued an order that puts subcontracting and service provision in the hydrocarbons...
Council of Ministers approves decree to restructure DR Congo’s Competition Commission.
The decree drastically redefines the status,...
The Congolese government plans to create two new financial institutions: a deposit and consignment fund (CDC) and a development bank. Finance Minister...
Since June 29, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) enforces mandatory source inspections for all imported goods. Under new regulations, suppliers...