Mozambique’s long-held dreams of natural gas have got a fresh boost following an estimated $1.1 billion contract award by ExxonMobil for the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 project in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado region. The signing of the contracts represents a big leap towards FID for the project, whose objective is to build onshore LNG facilities with […]
Local authorities stated that at least seventy persons—nine soldiers and the wife of a soldier among others—have been slain in an attack on the Kinsele village in western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC.). The Saturday, July 15 violence has heightened already existing tensions between the competing Teke and Yaka populations in the area. Claiming to […]
The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in Goma, Italy’s foreign ministry has said. Italy’s ambassador to the DRC, an Italian policeman and their Congolese driver have been killed in an ambush on a United Nations convoy in eastern DRC. According to local Congolese media, the ambush that killed the […]
Hundreds of Catholics took to the streets in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday (July 19). The demonstrators have criticized Ronsard Malonda ‘s nomination as president of the independent national election commission. They accuse him of being compromised and rigged during the last general election for the country. Gertrude EKombe, […]