The Southern African Liaison Office

The Southern African Liaison Office

International liaison, dialogue and research.

DRC News Briefs 

DRC – 11 March 2016

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Democratic Republic Of Congo to Extradite Rwandan Genocide Suspect

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has agreed to extradite a suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who was arrested with a $5 million bounty on his head.

Ladislas Ntaganzwa, 53, was arrested in December 2015 in eastern DRC. He had been subject to a U.S. State Department bounty and is suspected of involvement in the ethnic genocide in Rwanda, in which more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.

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Congo Activists Urge Government to Pass New Mining Code

Activist groups in Democratic Republic of Congo urged the government on Thursday to revive plans for a new mining code, saying the higher revenues it would generate were vital to supporting a young democracy.

The government of Africa’s leading copper producer started a review of the 2002 mining code in 2012, aiming to increase state revenues and tighten environmental and social regulations.

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