katanga mining contract review, page-3

Appears that even the NGO's are concerned:

http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/576/en/the_congolese_mining_sector_in_the_balance

" NGOs fear that DRC mining contract review process has been hijacked
Press Release – 04/02/2008

NGOs fear that DRC mining contract review process has been hijacked

Time for authorities in Europe and North America to act

(4 February 2008) - At the start of the Mining INDABA conference in Cape Town, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations warns that the DRC's mining contract review process has been hijacked. NGOs say that it is increasingly apparent that new deals are being struck behind closed doors despite the lack of completion or transparency in the review process. The NGOs cite the announcement on 28th January that rights to two mining concessions previously held by the Katanga Mining Company have been transferred to China's Sinohydro Corporation and the China Railway Engineering Corporation as part of the deal for the $5 billion loan from China's Exim Bank. NGOs would like the DRC Government to explain when and how this decision was reached. "

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