DRC Offers Manganese, Copper, Cobalt, and Lithium To U.S. Investors Under Minerals Pact
January 21st, 2026
Via Reuters, a report on Congo’s offer of manganese, copper?cobalt, and lithium assets to US investors under the recently signed minerals pact: The Democratic Republic of Congo has sent Washington a shortlist of state-owned assets – including manganese, copper-cobalt, gold and lithium projects – for U.S. investors to consider as part of a minerals partnership, […]
Read more »The American Investors Rushing Into Democratic Republic of Congo
December 19th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at some of the U.S. investors exploring the DRC: NEAR ZAMBIA’S border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Josh Goldman, the boss of an American mining firm, is discussing his next venture. KoBold Metals is gearing up to do business in Congo, where one of the world’s biggest known lithium deposits […]
Read more »Angola’s Biggest Bank Accelerates Regional Expansion With DRC In Focus
November 25th, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at Banco Angolano de Investimentos’s plans to accelerate regional expansion: Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI) plans to raise the share of loans to the private sector to about 40% as it backs Angola’s push to diversify the economy away from oil and gas. The timing is favourable. Angola is hosting […]
Read more »DR Congo Backs $400M Satellite Deal To Tackle Digital Deficit
September 17th, 2025
Via Semafor, an article on DR Congo’s recent $400M satellite deal to tackle its digital deficit: DR Congo is betting on satellite internet to address one of the world’s worst connectivity deficits, with only one in three Congolese connected to mobile internet. Just three months after approving Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service to operate in the country, […]
Read more »Trump’s Congo Gamble: Critical Minerals and a Dangerous New Bargain
August 31st, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a report on the Trump administration’s controversial agreement with Kinshasa, tying US access to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) mineral reserves to expanded security assistance in the east, a region convulsed by conflict with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels: The minerals that will power the world’s green transition could trap the Democratic […]
Read more »Turning Diplomatic Commitments into Mineral Investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo
July 2nd, 2025
Via CSIS, commentary on how to turn diplomatic commitments into mineral investments in the DRC: Earlier this year, as hostilities escalated between Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), President Félix Tshisekedi proposed granting the United States access to the DRC’s mineral resources in exchange for security support. Following intensive negotiations […]
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