New DRC Gvt plugs loopholes in mining sector

Governor walks tightrope on copper regulation By Tawanda Kanhema, recently in the DRC Mineral smugglers invaded the DRC soon after the run-off election in November 2006, with Chinese and Lebanese…

DRC: The Last Frontier

After poll, the big new investments By Tawanda Kanhema, recently in Lubumbashi Earthmovers, mining installations, books and drugs replace guns, bombs and other military materiel in containers bound for the…

Cathedral

Roman Catholic Cathedral in Lubumbashi… the most beautiful and unscathed building in the city.…

Traffic in Congo

A policewoman controls traffic with a whistle at a busy intersection in Lubumbashi. She controls trafic for the first two hours of the morning, thereafter… as you like it!…

A boy walks past a poster of former president Laurent Desire Kabila, assassinated by one of his personal bodyguards in 2001. His son, Joseph Kabila is now president of the…

DRC, A country in transition

Congolese people optimistic about their country’s prospects, need support By Tawanda Kanhema recently in Lubumbashi, DRC. There are many changes in the Democratic Republic of Congo today, a country emerging…