Jonas Gerding

journalist | business, energy and the environment in the Congo Basin I part of @weltreporter I board @j_network | [phone] | de, en, fr, pt

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

Scholarship for book writing (worth £18,000) open to anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa. Deadline September 22. https://t.co/vnN2I861Iz

[Robbie Corey-Boulet @rcoreyb]

DREAM JOB ALERT: Reuters is hiring a correspondent to be based in Dakar who would lead coverage of DRC and contribute to our broader file (23 countries in total).

The role would involve frequent travel to Congo:
https://t.co/JkgSbunKIL

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[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Today is publication day for my new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah,Pan-Africanism,and Global Blackness at High Tide. Widely available now..

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[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

Forest communities in the DRC's Tshopo province were promised social benefits for not cutting down trees. The carbon therefore not released into the atmosphere was sold as carbon credits. The carbon company cashed in - but abandoned the locals. Our report:
https://t.co/5NzN2ZIVlg

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

Interessiert an Afrika-Berichterstattung? Dann komm am 19.7. nach Berlin! https://t.co/RBrsqg7caI

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

The DRC is in talks with Gentry Beach, a Texan businessman allied to Donald Trump over rights to the Rubaya coltan mine. The area is currently under occupation by Rwandan backed M23 rebels. https://t.co/f8ahnJTukj

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

US company Anzana invests in a $760 million hydropower project at the Ruzizi river at the Rwanda DRC border. Energy will be produced for both countries. A positive signal amid US lead peace talks.
https://t.co/LXVqjxJtqS

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

End of last year, we spent a week with MONUSCO in North Kivu and Ituri for a 30 min documentary. "Sake is the key to Goma", said the force commander at the frontline with M23 in Sake. Two months later, it fell into the hands of the rebels. And so did Goma. https://t.co/Buf7om3HHx

[Baron Nkoy @tchombamedia]

reportages de @JonasGerding sur la #paix, #cacao et le #chocolat #virunga dans le territoire de #Beni dans la province du #NordKivu où l’armée ougandaise (UPDF) et les Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) luttent contre l’insécurité, notamment contre les groupes armés actifs dans la région, en particulier les ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), un groupe rebelle d’origine ougandaise. En novembre 2021, l’Ouganda et la RDC ont signé un accord militaire bilatéral permettant à l’armée ougandaise (UPDF) de mener des opérations conjointes avec les FARDC dans l'est du pays, notamment dans les territoires de Beni (Nord-Kivu) et de Irumu (Ituri).

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

According to JA, Moise Ekanga is one of Kabila's close allies orchestrating his political comeback in Goma. Ekanga has long been coordinating the infamous minerals for infrastructure deal between the DRC and China. Tshisekedi worked on its renogatiation. https://t.co/3fksfWIyGm

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

While the DRC and the USA are working on a minerals deal, US private equity group Denham Capital sells its stake of the world’s third largest tin mine to an Abu Dhabi company. https://t.co/v5RthXklik

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

All quite on the eastern front. At least for the moment, the Congolse army and M23 are avoiding confrontations around Lubero. We traveled there and spoke with the military governor in Beni https://t.co/2pKzKjynht

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

The DRC is mapping out 55 areas for oil exploration in the country’s entire Central Basin, a vast region with peatlands and tropical rainforests. A previous auction failed after a lack of interest and criticism of environmentalists.

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

While expectations are high in Kinshasa that a peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda will be signed this Friday, Reuters reports that both countries will just “submit separate drafts of a peace agreement”, paving the way for deal “in about two months” https://t.co/1mpflJpWre

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

DRC wants to build its first battery factory with Californian company Lyten. It will produce lithium-sulfur batteries, therefore not using the output of country’s vast cobalt mines, typically needed for lithium-ion batteries. https://t.co/ZZYbxgC0p1

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

The DRC wants to triple its cocoa production until 2030 – but farmers struggle with the implementation of certification schemes needed to export in line with the upcoming European Union Deforestation Regulation, @MUKALENGM reports https://t.co/2ATw4aCJJk

[Jonas Gerding @JonasGerding]

KoBold, a mining start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos ist “betting big” on DRC, recruiting staff, planning to apply for licences to explore lithium, copper and cobalt https://t.co/07OwZUNXu0