"That took a long time!”, as the journalists present at the press conference organized by Gecamines pointed out, for the management to react to accusations of embezzlement by some international NGOs present in the DRC. But, at least, it's done! And well d...

ER: The Chamber was created last September. A first event was created in cooperation with the French Ambassador: Le Beaujolais nouveau. We have a board in which three major French companies are represented, namely Total, Lafarge and Bollore. The other fou...

“the relations between “Business-France” and the ICC in South Africa are excellent, it is not difficult to complete this good relationship with the other Chambers of Commerce. The idea is to identify the needs and opportunities in the different countries...

At a time when France is affirming its willingness to reinvest vigorously in the DRC, M&B wanted to know more and proposed to Ambroise Tshiyoyo, President of the Franco-Congolese Chamber of Commerce, to share his first assessment in 2018 and present us wi...

As every year, at the end of October, the international rankings on the ease of doing business were anxiously awaited by the central administrations and, as every year, generated their share of government commitments to improve the situation. Between the...

South Africa's GDP grew 3.3% in the second quarter of 2016, a significant recovery after contracting by 1.2% during the previous quarter, announced national statistics office (Stats SA) on 6 September.

The Minister of National Economy, Modeste Bahati announced, at the approach of the New Year celebrations, a number of tax and customs breaks measures for importers of essential goods.

According to the figures published by the Central Bank on Tuesday, the DRC produced a total 466,250 tonnes of copper in the first quarter of 2016, down 14%.

According to a report issued by the local division of mines, royalties paid by mining companies in the DRC’s southeast dropped by 35% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2015.

In the World Bank’s Doing Business 2017 report, the DRC ranks 184th in the world and 48th out of 53 African economies, as in the previous ranking.

The decentralization process that began in 2015 when 21 new provinces were carved out has led to an overhaul of the mining sector in several of them.

In November, prices of essential commodities have taken the elevator in the city of Lubumbashi in the wake of the depreciation of the Congolese franc against the US dollar.

The Zambian government is expected to introduce a statutory instrument (SI) that will allow transacting in United States dollar at Kasumbalesa border to channel about US$40,000 from the black market into the formal system.

The Congolese national standards body (Comité national de normalisation - CNN) recently adopted a series of new COMESA harmonised standards and one new national standard as part of the county's progress towards integrating the regional economic zone.

Since the $8 billion debt relief to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the World Bank and IMF in 2010, which coincided with its 50th independence anniversary, the economic future painted itself optimistically, to say the least.

In a press release in the international stock market at the end of July, Brexia Gold Plata Peru, controlled by the Congolese businessman, Luc Gérard Nyafe, announces its entry in the capital of Auplata, first French gold producer listed on the stock marke...