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The DRC Government Has Violated Its Own Logging Moratorium
2016-07-14 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The DRC Government Has Violated Its Own Logging Moratorium An investigation by Greenpeace Africa investigation have uncovered a breach by the DRC government to showed it violated its own 2002 moratorium on new logging titles, granting three concessions of a total of 650.000 hectares in 2015 to a company called Société la Millénaire Forestire SARL (SOMIFOR) in Equateur and Tshuapa Provinces, and to another firm called La Forestire pour le Développement du Congo SARL (FODECO) in Tshopo Province....
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Helios DRC secures $105m in funding for Bharti towers deal
2016-07-13 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Towers specialist says funding will enable it to grow towers portfolio and invest in new power technologies.
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Bharti Airtel to sell 950 towers in DRC to Helios
2016-05-06 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Airtel pursues strategy of selling towers in Africa to reduce debt and cut capex.
Orange to acquire Tigo DRC
2016-02-08 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
$160 million deal to almost double Orange DRC's subscriber base.
Africas DRC Could Lose Vast Forests
2015-07-06 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study. According to the paper, published by the journal PLOS ONE, forests blanket 1.1 million square kilometers (425,000 square miles) of the DRC and contain an estimated 22 billion metric tons of carbon. It's the second-largest forest carbon stock on the planet. The DRC has proposed measures...