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Katanga Mining announced on Friday it has secured $635.5 million in new loan facilities from parent Glencore International to fund the expansion of its Democratic Republic of Congo copper-cobalt mine. The Toronto-listed firm wants to bump copper production to 270,000 tonnes per annum and thereafter bump it up to 310,000 tonnes from cash flow.
The company is already ramping up copper production with financials results also out on Friday showing year to date copper in ore mined was 157,658 tonnes, a 96% increase over 2010. Cobalt produced fell 30% to 593 tonnes, but that was in line with expectations. Katanga says with the expansion the DRC complex it could become Africa’s largest producer of copper and the world’s number one cobalt mine.

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8 November 2011

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President José Filipe Moraes Cabral (Portugal):

Kinshasa, 08 November 2011: The United Nations Organisation Stabilization Mission in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is deeply concerned by the rising spate of pre-electoral violence in many
parts of the country and incitement to violence by political leaders that has marred the presidential and
legislative elections campaigns since 28 October.

MUMBAI, India, November 7, 2011/ — India’s leading bilateral trade magazine IndoAfricanBusiness Goes LIVE with Content Partnership with African Press Organisation.

Brussels-Kinshasa November 4th 2011,

AETA and EurAc: it is vital and urgent to create a consultation framework to deal with obstacles related to the implementation of the 2011-2013 electoral calendar in the DRC.

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission made today the following statement:

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