Julien is keeping busy promoting project overseas (but where is mining licence surely he has input to decision)
The 8th edition of the Rebranding Africa Forum (RAF) will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October in Brussels (Belgium) on the theme
"what strategies for attracting African countries". This event, considered the largest economic forum in Belgium dedicated to Africa, especially French-speaking, will be attended by Congolese speakers including Julien Paluku, Minister of Industry and Antony Nkinzo, Director General of the National Agency for Investment Promotion (ANAPI).
In addition to leading political actors, the RAF will also receive outstanding economic and technocratic actors, major banking institutions.
"It is a fact that Africa, endowed with envious potential, is attractive. But the African continent should no longer be seen simply as a dairy cow. Indeed, its diverse resources must now attract foreign capital and create wealth locally," say economic experts.
Thus, Minister Julien Paluku will be one of the keynote speakers at this forum because of his ambitious project to create an electric battery manufacturing plant with the strategic reserves of Congolese cobalt.
Something may have been lost in translation, what are economic and technocratic actors (sounds like politicians full of wind/shit)
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La 8ème édition du Rebranding Africa Forum (RAF) se tiendra jeudi 20 et vendredi 21 octobre à Bruxelles (Belgique) sur le thème « quelles stratégies d’attractivité des pays africains ». Cet évènement, considéré comme le plus grand Forum économique en Belgique consacré à l'Afrique, surtout...
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The mining sector looking for new investors
Tensions with local communities, environmental problems, labor law ... The presence of Chinese mining companies in the DRC - majority in the sector - have been the subject of many reports.
However, they remain preponderant.
Passing through France during an economic summit, Congolese actors in the sector called on European investors to come and invest in mines.
"You have to come, get involved with us!"
Vice-president of the Congolese House of Mines, John Kanyoni is the VRP of the sector during a round table in Paris.
"Europe has abandoned us, it has given way to China.
Today, our mining portfolio is 70% controlled by Chinese companies, but we also think that there is a good opportunity for Europeans to return home.
There is no question of questioning the partnership with the Chinese, but of creating new opportunities.
"We are not going to find ourselves in a position where we are going to say: no, we will question the contracts already signed by Chinese companies, no.
China was there when practically no one was interested in the DRC, says John Kanyoni.
What is important today is that there are other opportunities, including new mines where you have to do research.
Same message on the side of the Congolese authorities.
Minister of Mines Antoinette N’samba Kalambayi wishes to go ahead.
"We use any investor, all countries in the world to be able to come to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be able to install their factories, because we need labor, much more of the technology of Western countries because We don't have it today.
Invest and together sign win-win partnerships.
However, according to the researcher of IFRI (French Institute of International Relations), Thierry Vircoulon, Chinese actors are not willing to leave themselves in this sector.
"They even try to strengthen their control, since, at the beginning of this year, there was the visit of the CEO of CMOC, owner of the great Mine of Tenke Fungurume, but also of the CEO of Catl one of the big companies in China who Produces electric batteries.
They went to Kinshasa to offer the opening of a new mine with an investment of around $1.8 billion for the Kisanfu mine, said the researcher and then there is a project under discussion for the creation of an electric battery manufacturing plant.
The researcher also adds that difficulties still slow down European investments: political and corruption risks, as well as, in certain sectors, child labor.
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The mining sector looking for new investors
Invest and together sign win-win partnerships.