Analysis

Below the threshold is not outside the exposure. Four months after the Kabila designation, Matadi Gateway has three shareholding versions, a state representative nobody can trace,…

Seven months after the photograph, the document is still non-binding. And on the ownership figures already on the record, the transaction does something to Kamoto that…

On 11 September a presidential ordinance reconducted Joseph Kazibaziba as director general of the state gold trader. Since February that company has been the declared upstream…

A draft decree creating the Congolese task force was taken by the Council of Ministers on 11 September. It is being read as the partnership entering…

Washington still calls Chemaf its flagship investment in Congo. Five and a half months after a USD 30 million equity close, Etoile had not restarted as…

For eleven months, Louis Watum Kabamba has made Chinese capital the same proposal in three cities: come to Kolwezi, build processing plants, obey the Mining Code.…

The uranium was Congolese. The war on terror's newest front should be too.

The money moves through three doors. The decisions wait behind one. Every US institution on the Congo, what each controls, and how to position for what…

Chinese operators kept mining cobalt, stopped selling it, and poured everything into copper. Six months on they are richer, more liquid, and holding the tonnes the…

Alert level: Elevated on the constitutional track. The treaty has entered the mandate fight.

An investor can hold a treaty-backed first claim on a Congolese asset and still lose the tonnes it produces. Nothing in either instrument says which claim…

America's new Africa envoy is on his second tour of the continent, and the deal his pitch is built on isn't on the itinerary. The omission…