Michael J. Kavanagh
@mjkcongo
Tweets on DRCongo & neighbors Following $ for @BBGAfrica @business Some tweets in bad French Tembo pression #CongoHoldUp http://allthewealth.io http://michaeljkavanagh.com
YouTube: Bloomberg's @Vicky_Feng_ made a short documentary of our #CongoHoldUp work on China's Sicomines, the mysterious Congo Construction Company, & the Kabila family. @WTBClowes @Mediapart @PPLAAF @EICnetwork youtu.be/m3BnmQNntnY
Congo's mines minister signed pact w/ US corp. KoBold Metals (backed by famous American billionaires) to support its plan to take over Manono lithium project from AVZ, digitize & make public mining data @ Tervuren, & get 1,600 km2 of exploration permits bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources, a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals between the US and China in Congo @megacontango bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
China’s CMOC Group produced more cobalt at its two mines in Congo in the first half of this year, despite the African nation’s ban on exports @annieLee23 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A good piece showing how complicated this repatriation of FDLR communities and the return of IDPs & refugees is going to be. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…
Congo-Rwanda Deal: Now Comes the Hard Part. Nice analysis of the challenges ahead, in particular of how an M23-Congo peace agreement could work crisisgroup.org/africa/great-l… via @crisisgroup
Pres Kagame jokes about some health problems & rumors w/out giving details but reassures press conference that he's very much alive
“Ordinarily, how do all of you, me and others, how do people want to account for people's personal health? Is there an exception, by the way, in this world? Well, first of all, there is nobody who lives forever. Secondly, even for anybody's life, whether short or long, you have…
In a wide-ranging press conference, Rwanda's Paul Kagame promised to adhere to US-brokered peace deal w/ Congo. He said the mineral narrative "oversimplified" the conflict & called for the elimination of FDLR & return of refugees @OndiroOganga bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Next Africa Podcast: In this week’s episode, Bloomberg’s Michael Kavanagh joins Jennifer Zabasajja to explain how this deal came about now, what role the US & access to minerals played in the talks & what hope this deal has of leading to a lasting peace bloomberg.com/news/audio/202…
Mineral smuggling from E Congo into Rwanda has reached "unprecedented levels" during M23's occupation & a "large part" of Ugandan gold is smuggled by armed groups--some w/ links to DRC politicians-- & "ineligible for trade," new UN Experts report says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Rwanda's foreign minister on the sequence of events to follow the Washington peace agreement
#RDC #Rwanda: Les propos de @onduhungirehe dans @jeune_afrique sur la question des FDLR 👇 JA: Et vous aviez insisté dans le bureau Ovale que vous lèveriez les mesures de défense aussitôt que la RDC aura traqué ou neutralisé les FDLR, ces forces qui opèrent, selon nos…
Congo wants a peace agreement with M23 before next month's summit between Presidents Kagame, Tshisekedi & Donald Trump. DRC's foreign minister lays out the long sequence of events to make this peace deal stick in an interview with Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
