The US government has imposed visa bans on several Congolese officials found culpable for trafficking endangered wildlife to China in the latest move to back conservationists. The State Department on Wednesday listed Cosma Wilungula Balongelwa, former Director General of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), and Leonard Muamba Kanda, the former Department Head of the DRC Management Authority…
Summary The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing for elections due on December 20, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission. If all goes well, this could become the first election scheduled and conducted on time in a long time, allowing the country to maintain or change leadership by peaceful means only for the second time in history….
The United Kingdom(UK) government is planning a £235 million capital investment in the hydropower sector in Africa. UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, while in Rwanda for a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, said, he welcomes Green Industrial Revolution ‘sweeping across Africa.’ “The major new UK investments and public-private partnerships are turbocharging the clean energy transition in Africa,” Boris said at…