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...

Since mid-June, the Chinese currency has been falling against the dollar and has reached its lowest level in over a year, despite the efforts of the central bank. But what is happening in the Middle Kingdom?

French Week was held from 13 to 16 June 2018 at the Pullman-Grand Hotel in Kinshasa. In a format that the organizers wanted more tightened and oriented towards a "corporate" public, the event won the support of its partners, participants, exhibitors and s...

For "Le Monde", Thierry Vircoulon, professor at Sciences Po Paris, questions the notion of emergence in Africa. According to him, "the concept, put into all the sauces, has replaced the term development. Without defining the diversity of situations on t...

This tenth edition of the DRC Mining Week, held at the Pullmann Grand Karavia Hotel in Lubumbashi, from 19 to 21 June, with more than 160 local and international suppliers and exhibitors participating, was certainly one of the most successful.

According to the African Development Bank, Africa has maintained its position of the second fastest growing economy jus behind the South Asian region.

Zambia approved mid-April a proposal to drop a recent and controversial hike in mining royalties and it is returning to a tax system based on profit in a fresh effort to try solving a six-month standoff with miners over the increase.

According to the recently published 2014 national human development report (NHDR), the informal sector accounts for more than 70% of all of the DRC's socio-economic activities.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will launch a New Deal for Africa in energy resource development, its new president Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina confirmed today. “We are going to launch a New Deal on energy for Africa. Freeing up Africa’s huge energy pot...

The organisation does however expect the eurozone to grow by 1.4% in 2015 and 2% in 2016, up on earlier estimates. Fearing a drop in interests of which “the extent of the decline appears to be flashing a warning signal”, the OECD is worried markets may be...