IMF Calls for Transparency in Mining Contracts
In 2012, the IMF
suspended its aid to the country under former president Joseph Kabila because
of concerns about corruption in the mining sector.
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday
the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo needed to be fully
transparent with its mining contracts in order to access any new aid programme.
The comments by the IMF's representative in
Kinshasa, Philippe Egoume, was the latest development in a long-running dispute
over the corruption-plagued mining industry which is overseen by a public
company.
"We have a disagreement with the
authorities, who prefer to publish recent contracts but not the old ones,"
Egoume said during an online news conference.
"In our view, all the contracts should
be published."
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