Archive for September 2021
Democratic Republic of Congo: Is resource nationalism on the rise again?
Many investors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) anticipated a new dawn for investor regulation early this year, as President Félix Tshisekedi shed the yoke of his predecessor, Joseph Kabila, and broke from their uneasy power-sharing alliance. Under President Kabila, mining companies faced opaque tendering and were subject to punitive taxation changes that ignored…
Read MoreGuinea’s military junta will strive to keep miners on board
Guinea will seek to avoid scaring off miners of its bauxite and iron-ore minerals after the coup which brought Colonel Mamady Doumbouya to power. Mining majors include Rio Tinto, Rusal, Alcoa and Chinalco.
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