> While a week has passed since the seizure of a large quantity of gold from the illegal Muchacha quarry by the Eco-guards of the Wildlife Reserve in Okapi (RFO), this Saturday June 26, 2021 President Félix Tshisekedi of the DRC and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame have just signed in Goma several bilateral cooperation agreements aimed at promoting and protecting investments between the two countries, avoiding the problem of double taxation and tax evasion. Concerning more particularly the exploitation of gold, a memorandum of understanding has been established between the Congolese company SAKIMA and the Rwandan company Dither LTD under private law.
> Backed by the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (DRC - Tshopo Province), one of the main protected areas threatened by anthropization in the region, the National Institute for Agronomic Studies and Research (INERA), flagship of agronomic research in the 1950s is gradually recovering.
> The Ebola disease seemed on the verge of being brought under control in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and now a new virus, COVID-19, is spreading to the surface of our planet and sowing its share of dead.
> While at the end of August, the G7 meeting serves as a platform for President Macron to castigate the environmental policy of his Brazilian counterpart, the publication of a NASA satellite photo showing the outbreak of fire on the surface of the globe raises a wider controversy. Africa seems to be much more affected than the Amazon and many Internet users are moved by it.
> Following the violence in the east of the country that hampered the resolution of the latest Ebola outbreak, the WHO, through the voice of its President, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on 14 March 2019, urged the government of the DRC to take the necessary measures to resolve the problem within six months.
> In the Mai Ndombe region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an NGO called M’bou Mon Tour (MMT) was founded in 1997. It brings together a group of local communities who work to protect the forests and savannahs that are home to bonobos and other small primates, and who carry out development activities that respect nature. The ultimate goal is to reduce malnutrition, poverty and ignorance by building on a rich and unique local heritage.
> "The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) congratulate all the armed groups who have agreed to lay down their arms to allow the population to live peacefully in peace and security," writes General Léon-Richard Kasonga, their spokesperson, this February 13, 2019. This is particularly the case in Kasaï (the region of origin of the family of Félix Tshisekedi), where more than 600 militiamen went, but also in Ituri (north-east), North -Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema (east).
