Although his country sits on a cornucopia of critical minerals, President Tshisekedi has failed to draw in heavyweight investors
, More deals between Washington and Kinshasa to secure supplies of critical minerals are being negotiated as both sides try to improve relations and avoid regulatory snafus – on both sides. Against this backdrop, Kinshasa s state mining company Gécamines has signed a one-year contract worth $925,000 with Mercury, a K Street lobby shop in Washington DC. It could also add to diplomatic pressure to end the brutal proxy war in mineral-rich eastern Congo.
The state miner s new chairman and general managers appointed by Kinshasa to give Gécamines a new lease of life were all in the good books of the firm s all-powerful former boss Albert Yuma Mulimbi.
In one of the grim discoveries, auditors say that more than $400 million in tax advances and loans the company said it made to the state could not be traced
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