Analysis

Congo's regulator hit every major mining book as the US-DRC Strategic Partnership stalled: no Geneva communiqué, a Lobito misattribution, a weak bond sale.

The State Department's 2026 assessment and the enforcement file now describe two different countries. The gap between them is the risk investors are not pricing.

A Congolese refinery with no mine now has a U.S. study grant. First metal still depends on feed, power, and a quota Kinshasa hands out at…

The partnership is producing transactions faster than institutions. A reserve commitment, a corridor power study, a delisting. The commercial steering body has met once. The reform…

The treaty said explore a coordinated stockpile on Congolese soil. This week EXIM hired Glencore to fill an American one. Mercuria wrote $500 million next to…

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.