Green Triad: How Hydropower, Wind and Solar Anchor a New China-Africa Bargain
Economics - Macro & Markets · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China's foreign ministry talks about a single green partnership with Africa, working with the continent to drive its transition through hydropower, wind and solar. But...
Congo’s non-mining economy grew slower than its population in 2024: the real picture
Headline growth of 7.9 per cent leaves out the 3.2 per cent that most Congolese actually live in. By Kanisa Magazine · March 2025 Congo's economy grew 7.9 per cent in 2024, according to the central bank. Strip out mining and quarrying and the rest grew 3.2 per cent,...
Congo’s reserves lost US$300m in two days as cobalt stopped: March’s external account
A four-month cobalt shipment ban and a copper price near US$10,000 pulled the external account in two directions. By Kanisa Magazine · March 2025 Congo switched off its cobalt exports on 22 February 2025, and within four weeks the price of the metal in London had...
Reading the 2022-2026 Evidence on Konkola Copper Mines and the Integrated Copper Chain
A copper complex can restore a press release long before it restores a furnace. That gap — between the language of recovery and the metal on the loading dock — is the honest place to start reading Konkola Copper Mines between 2022 and the middle of 2026. The...
Mopani Copper Mines Between 2022 and June 2026: What Changed
In distressed mining, the distance between an announcement and a tonne of saleable copper is measured in years, not press releases. Mopani Copper Mines' stretch from 2022 to the middle of 2026 is a case study in that gap — a period rich in commitments, ownership moves...
Budget support returns to Congo: the World Bank’s $250m and the eight reforms it bought
The World Bank’s $250 million development-policy operation paid for reforms enacted in the spring of 2022, from a Treasury directorate to a royalty-sharing decree. The second operation will test whether they last.
Beneath Congo’s copper boom: 3.9 per cent non-mining growth and thin credit
The BCC and the World Bank both show a strong 2021, yet water, power and credit data reveal an economy beneath the mining line that is expanding far more slowly and unevenly.
Congo’s reserves passed $3.7bn in May as cobalt slid and Brent ran above $110
BCC data show reserves rising to $3.79 billion by 20 May while copper and cobalt eased and oil climbed. Price, volume, import and financing effects pull in different directions for the external position.
Congo’s customs target asks for 50 per cent growth; April delivered 22 per cent
The BCC’s 27 April 2022 digest shows revenue at 28.9 per cent of plan, with tax receipts ahead, oil at 40.4 per cent and customs at only 22.5 per cent of a target set 50 per cent above 2021.
Congo’s reserves rose US$221m in April while copper slipped 1.7 per cent
The BCC’s 27 April 2022 digest shows reserves of US$2,960.4 million, 2.58 months of imports, after a one-day rise of US$210.5 million, while mining purchases covered auction sales only 1.2 times.
Congo’s mining headline hides fast cocoa growth and a shrinking grid
BCC data for 2021 show copper up 12.3 per cent, cocoa up 51 per cent and exported palm oil nearly tripling, while electricity output fell 2.8 per cent and potable water 11.1 per cent.
Copper hit US$10,420 but Congo’s reserves still covered only 2.4 months
Copper and cobalt rose sharply by 25 March 2022, yet BCC reserves of US$2,755.0 million covered 2.4 months of imports because auctions and a US$300 million SDR transfer absorbed the gains.
Congo’s tax agencies raised 1.5 trillion francs by mid-February, mining headline aside
By 18 February 2022 Congo’s three revenue agencies had raised 1,514 billion francs, about US$757 million, 3.5 per cent faster than the 2021 daily pace. Customs and import dollars carry much of the load.
Congo’s reserves hold at US$3.5bn, but import cover shrinks to ten weeks
Reserves held at US$3.48 billion on 18 February 2022, but the BCC’s cover ratio fell from 3.29 to 2.48 months. Importers and lenders should read the denominator as well as the dollar total.
Beneath Congo’s mining headline: cement, phones and flour outgrew copper in 2021
Copper output grew 18 per cent in 2021, but cement, telephony and flour grew faster. The January 2022 BCC table shows a domestic economy riding beside the mines, with wider tax and supply-chain implications.
Congo’s US$3.5bn reserve cushion: SDRs and the IMF, not exports, built January’s buffer
The central bank held US$3.48 billion on 21 January 2022, 3.03 months of imports. Most of the rebuild came from IMF allocations and programme money, so businesses should watch import cover, not the headline.
Congo’s 2021 growth estimate rose from 5.3% to 5.7% in five weeks: what moved it
Between its November and December digests the BCC lifted its 2021 growth estimate to 5.7 per cent as production data extended to September. Copper outran the average; consumer sectors did not.
Congo’s year-end external account: cobalt prices more than doubled, tonnes grew 8%
Cobalt quotes more than doubled in 2021 while Congolese cobalt tonnage rose 8 per cent. BCC data separate price, volume, imports and IMF financing in the external position.
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Cement up 20%, water down 5%: Congo’s non-mining economy through October 2021
Copper rose 12 per cent in ten months, but cement jumped 20 per cent while water output fell 5 per cent. The BCC tables show where mining income reaches households and where it stalls.