Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When the Qiyuan Group broke ground at Dukem, the promise was tidy: a 500-hectare zone, 80 Chinese companies, and over 20,000 jobs for Ethiopian workers within five...
Cobalt up 40 per cent, exports frozen: Congo’s reserves reach US$7.6 billion anyway
In July 2025 the DRC's external account was carried by copper volumes and a cobalt price, not cobalt tonnes. By Kanisa Magazine · July 2025 The Banque Centrale du Congo's table of net reserves reads US$7,607 million on 25 July 2025, against US$6,132 million on 31...
Congo’s mining headline and the quieter economy beneath it: June 2025 in five numbers
Copper is steady and the budget is rising, but cement and power are running below last year. By Kanisa Magazine · June 2025 Congo's mining headline and its everyday economy are moving at different speeds. The BCC's digest for the week to 13 June 2025 shows copper...
Cobalt up 39 per cent, reserves down 6: the DRC’s external account, June 2025
Metal prices are rising, but only copper is shipping, and reserves are the residual. By Kanisa Magazine · June 2025 Cobalt was 39 per cent dearer on 13 June 2025 than on the last day of 2024, copper was almost 10 per cent dearer, and Congo's gross reserves were 5.9...
Mining grew 11.6 per cent in 2024, the rest of Congo 3.2: the real economy in May 2025
Copper and cobalt carry the headline; households and non-mining firms are living on a different growth rate. By Kanisa Magazine · May 2025 Congo's economy grew about 6.5 per cent in 2024, and almost all of that came from one sector. The IMF put extractive growth at...
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Beneath Congo’s Mining Boom: Beer, Flour and Ports Grew at a Fraction of Copper’s Pace
BCC data for January to November 2022 show copper up 36 per cent against 7 per cent for beer, 6 per cent for flour and under 1 per cent for soft drinks. The World Bank sees private consumption growing just 1.5 per cent.
Congo’s External Account, December 2022: Falling Prices, Rising Tonnes, Thin Cover
Copper output rose 36 per cent and cobalt 24 per cent in the eleven months to November, but prices fell 20 to 37 per cent from their March peaks. The IMF expects a 2022 current-account deficit of 2.2 per cent of GDP.
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Congo’s copper surged 36 per cent while the rest of the economy crawled
BCC figures to late November 2022 show copper output up 36 per cent on a year earlier, while beverages, flour, power and ports grew in low single digits and gold and coffee fell. Here is the gap, and what it asks of business.
Copper up, oil down: November turned Congo’s terms of trade, not yet its reserves
BCC data for the week to 25 November show copper above US$8,000 and Brent near US$81, a favourable swing. Reserves stayed near US$4 billion, and the IMF’s US$200 million is worth five per cent of them.
Mining output up 41%, flour up 6%, electricity up 1%: the real Congo under the headline
The BCC projects 7.1 per cent growth for 2022, but its cumulative output data show copper up 41 per cent and flour up 6. Real income per head and inflation tell a narrower story.
Congo’s copper fell 26% from March, so cobalt volume had to carry the dollar account
BCC data show copper 26 per cent below its March peak and cobalt 37 per cent lower, while Brent rose in October. Output at TFM and Mutanda is rising, but Katanga copper is shrinking.
Shop Lower SA: Buying Products from the World to South Africa
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