RDC: Ensemble – Communique de Presse (27.06.2018)

Uganda Media Centre: Press Release on RDCs (25.06.2018)

Uganda: Office of the President – Press Release concerning RDCs Fraternity (24.06.2018)

RDC: Communique Officiel concernant Moise Katumbi (18.06.2018)

RDC: UDPS – Messieurs les Presidents Federaux de l’Union pour la Democratie et le Progres Social (Tous) – (14.06.2018)

Resident District Commanders Re-Shuffle: A list of Honourable Mentions!

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has professed that the Resident District Commanders are lazy and useless. Even so he has now reshuffled them again and have newly promoted and some switched. I will not look into all of them, but here is a few honourable mentions.

Salim Komakech has been posted in Kagadi District from 23 August 2016 until 13th June 2018, when he was moved to Apac District.

Hellen Pulkol goes from being the RDC in Moroto to be appointed in Abim District.

Alijong Modest goes from being the RDC in Nebbi to be appointed in Nakapiririt district.

Elijah Madoi goes from being the RDC in Namutumba to be appointed in Butaleja district.

Samuel Odong goes from Uganda National Youth Council and get appointed to become RDC of Kaberamaido

Moses Mugweri, the former deputy RDC of both Makindye Division in Kampala and Namayingo gets promoted into the role as RDC in Adjumani District.

James Musoke, he is the former NRM Flagbearer for the LC3 Elections in Bugiri, the now former Deputy RDC of Tororo have been appointed RDC in Kayunga District.

Former Musoke Kintu is appointed to be RDC of Sembabule District. He is a former Prime Minister until 1999. Therefore, he get’s appointed a local leadership role for his services to the President.

Journalist turned RDC, former Mitooma District Aharikundira Africano, have been reaffirmed as the RDC for Nakaseke District.

These are the ones I caught an eye for in the mix. Surely I missed someone special. If I did, please comment. Because it is always interesting to see, how the NRM Cronies are pushed around and re-appointed, now and then. Peace.

RDC: Ensemble – Le passeport semi-biometrique de Moise Katumbi annule par le regime de Kinshasa qui lui avait deja refuse l’obtention d’un passeport biometrique (15.06.2018)

RDC: Lambert Mende – Modifiant et Completant l’Arrete No. 04/MIP/020/96 – Portant Mesures d’Application de la loi 96-002 du 22 Juin 1996 Fixant les Modalities de l’Exercice de la Liberte de Presse (14.06.2018)

KCC dispute: GÉCAMINES reaches an agreement with KATANGA GROUP, and defines with GLENCORE the foundations for a new win-win partnership (13.06.2018)

LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 13, 2018 – On 12 June 2018, GÉCAMINES (www.Gecamines.cd), together with its subsidiary SOCIÉTÉ IMMOBILIÈRE DU CONGO (“SIMCO”), entered into with KATANGA MINING LIMITED and some of its affiliated companies (the “KATANGA GROUP”) as well as their joint company KAMOTO COPPER COMPANY (“KCC”), a settlement agreement (the “Agreement”).

Under the terms of the Agreement, the following goals and results are targeted, among others:

  • KCC’s net equity will be restored in accordance with applicable laws ;
  • KCC’s indebtedness towards the GLENCORE group will be reduced from 9 billion USD down to 3.45 billion USD as at 1 January 2018;
  • Interest rates applicable on intra-group loans are revised and shall no longer exceed 6% per year;
  • On the basis of KCC’s current business plan, as early as the 2019 fiscal year, GÉCAMINES will start, for the first time, receiving dividends, which assessed cumulated amount should exceed 2 billion USD over the next ten years;
  • The profits will allow for the payment of corporate taxes being likely to significantly contribute to the replenishment the Congolese State’s treasury;
  • A better valuation, in the future, of GÉCAMINES’ contribution of the copper and cobalt deposits to the partnership through a significant increase of the amount per ton of the pas de porte, from 35 USD to 110 USD, and which can reach 170 USD in certain scenarios;
  • A significant increase of the valuation of GÉCAMINES’ ownership in KCC, which value was until then nil due to the high level of indebtedness of the company;
  • The waiver by KCC to the benefit of the JORC certified reserves amounting to 3,992,185 tCu and 205,629 tCo (the “Reserves”), releasing GÉCAMINES from its obligation to deliver the Reserves or, failing that, to pay a counter-value of a maximum amount of 285 million USD;
  • The payment by the KATANGA GROUP of a settlement indemnity (150 million USD) in favor GÉCAMINES; and
  • The withdrawal by GÉCAMINES and SIMCO, at closing, from the judicial proceeding initiated before the Commercial Court of Kolwezi on 20 April 2018.

GÉCAMINES welcomes the outcome of the discussions with the KATANGA GROUP and its majority shareholder GLENCORE PLC, and the new foundations now set for the partnership, with a view to an effective sharing of wealth, with immediate financial benefits for all the stakeholders, and in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the affected communities. GÉCAMINES hopes that upcoming negotiations with other partners and companies will be conducted in a similar open and respectful climate, and will reach the same satisfactory outcome.

RDC: Luc Nkulula – Message de condoléances de la Conférence Épiscopale Nationale du Congo (CENCO) – (12.06.2018)