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Licensing rights for 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo went up for auction on 28 July, opening parts of the world's second-biggest rainforest to drilling that could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, jeopardizing climate goals to tame global warming. President Felix Tshisekedi presided over the launch of bidding at a ceremony in the capital Kinshasa. Attendees included representatives from France's TotalEnergies and several domestic companies, although a TotalEnergies spokeswoman said the company would not participate in bidding. "The launch of the tendering process ... speaks to our desire to put our resource potential at the service of our country," Tshisekedi said, arguing that fossil fuel production would boost development in one of the world's poorest countries. "This is in a context where fossil fuels, including crude oil and gas are at the center of global issues of peace and stability because of the Russian/Ukrainian conflict," he added. Tshisekedi said modern drilling methods and tight regulation would minimize the ecological impact and denied that Congo was going back on commitments to protect its forests.
ABSTRACT In many countries, such as in Bangladesh, Egypt and The Democratic Republic of Congo, much of the inland transport is conducted on rivers and lakes. The passenger safety associated with this traffic should be to international safety level. However, often safe transport is not secured and accidents and fatalities occur, either caused by fires or by overloading causing capsizing, grounding on sandbanks or capsizing in large waves. Note that the large rivers can be several kilometers wide. In the case of the river Congo, the passenger safety is at the lowest level, resulting in hundreds of fatalities annually. Of particular concern for the Congo River is the lack of safety equipment, lack of updated charts, poor equipment maintenance and the lack of implementation of education requirements. In the paper, we explore this catastrophic situation and summarize the response to a questionnaire carried out amongst relevant local maritime personnel. Means to improve the situation are suggested with emphasis on adherence to IMO regulations for vessels and fairleads and the education of maritime personnel. INTRODUCTION The transport along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, on rivers and lakes, gives the possibility and ability to navigate and transport goods and people in Congo DRC. Maritime transportation in Congo DRC is extremely important, because around 2/3 of the country's transport is carried out on the navigable waterways. The total length of these navigable waterways is estimated at more than 16.000km, including the navigable part of the Congo River, noting that in Congo RDC, the main maritime transportation is operated on the Congo River with its tributaries and on Lake Kivu. These waterways give the people in the country the opportunity to connect the villages with the capital Kinshasa and the neighbor countries, see Fig. 1. For more details, see WFP (2013). Congo DRC has a generally poor transportation infrastructure. This is a major factor in the country's economic challenges. The Congo River and its tributaries, serve as the main transport arteries. These rivers are supplemented by rail, road, and both private and public air services. The status for river transport is, however, characterized by use of obsolete equipment (like old tugs without navigation lights and barges without safety provisions), lack of navigation supports, non-updated charts and lack of enforcement of maritime rules and regulations. This leads to large annual loss of people and asset and reduced opportunity for economic growth in the country.
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Introduction In mid-1973, my wife and I made our first venture overseas-an assignment in Africa. During the next eight years, we worked and lived in Zaire, Angola, Iran, Dubai and as a sort of anticlimax, in Scotland. Being in the oilfield service business meant fairly extensive travel throughout southern and western Africa, the Middle East and Northern Europe. The experience was pleasurable, startling, frustrating, exciting, but never dull. Wherever we went, we found that "oilfield types" made us welcome and helped us get started-this was especially important at the outset. On given days during the first few months, if we"d both said out loud what we felt, we"d have come home in a hurry. Africa For a couple of Prairie types, it was quite a shock to be plunged into equatorial Africa with its masses of people (well below the poverty line), the heat and the humidity and the "crawlies"; and above all, the smell-a strong pungent odour unique to Africa that took a lot of getting used to. The mostly "dictatorial" regimes were abrupt departures from the Canadian way of life. We stopped in Lagos, Nigeria (our company's West African regional headquarters) for the first ten days, where we received many good tips on overseas living that were to help us considerably in our subsequent postings. It was very enlightening to see how our expatriates and those of others in the oil business were coping and had coped through tough (even war) times. My first posting was in Kinshasa, Zaire (formerly Leopoldville, Belgian Congo), where I was to set up an office from which I could manage and sell our company's land and offshore services in Zaire, Cabinda, Angola, South Africa, etc. It was also necessary to the company's other West African operations in Gabon, Congo-Braza, Cameroons, Nigeria, etc. As a Canadian working for an American-French company, I was able to caU on several embassies, as the occasion required. In this instance, I received the most help from the French Embassy's commercial attache-a lady who has spent several years in Africa. We also were helped greatly by a major oil company's employees and their wives, who opened their homes to us and made adjusting so much easier-especially as I travelled a lot. Being made welcome at the U.S. Embassy's Social Club also made life much more enjoyable. We will always remember Louie, our local driver in Kinshasa, an excellent chauffeur who knew the city like the back of his hand and was just a little bit larcenous. He was mostly happy, but when I was away, he had to take orders from my wife, which didn"t please him because women in Africa usually take orders from men. Communications with Louie were in so-called French (his badly fractured and ours little better than the "corn flakes box" level), plus a lot of arm waving. It's interesting as to how well this kind of communication can work when both sides really try.
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