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Taiwan tries to force the DRC to repay a 30-year-old debt

Taiwan's lawyers, who won a US court ruling in 2017 ordering the DRC to pay $57.3m for an unpaid debt dating back to 1991, are now trying to target Congolese assets in the US. [...]

Published on 30/05/2022 at 06:00 GMT

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US disillusioned over failure to turn DR Congo away from Beijing

Ever since Félix Tshisekedi took power, Washington had hoped he would curb China's huge influence in the country. Four years later, the United States is bitterly disappointed that it has failed to break Beijing's hegemony in strategic mining issues.

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Kinshasa continues to turn deaf ear to Taiwan's requests to repay its debt

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Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi met with representatives of mining operators on 8 September.

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DRC confuses Taiwan for China as it seeks to repay 30-year-old loan

Félix Tshisekedi is currently negotiating the rescheduling of a $57m loan from Taiwan's Exim-Bank which dates back to the Mobutu era. The problem is that until very recently the Congolese government thought it was negotiating with China, the country's biggest donor, rather than Taiwan.

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How Erik Prince is building his niche on the continent

Since announcing his plans to invest in battery metals with much ado in early 2019, the American private security tycoon Erik Prince has been throwing money and staff to the task. His goal to build a portfolio of these speciality [.

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Robert Friedland wants to power up Mount Nimba iron ore

The difficult negotiations between Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland's High Power Exploration (HPX) and the Guinean state for control of the Nimba iron ore project is only a small part of its US parent company I-Pulse's African strategy.

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The Canadian mining magnate Robert Friedland.

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