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Africo Resources Ltd, is pleased to announce that Swanmines S.p.r.l. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the DRC’s Ministry for Social Affairs. The memorandum is designed to ensure that Swanmines’ social development programs will be aligned with local areas of need as identified by the Ministry. This is the first agreement of this kind to be signed with a mining company in the Katanga Province and only the second in the DRC.
The Minister for Social Affairs, Professor Martin Bitijula Mahimba, has pledged the Ministry’s support to Swanmines. “We are delighted to sign this agreement,” said Minister Mahimba, “it is one normally signed with NGOs, we are no longer content with mining companies short-changing this country, simply taking what they need and putting nothing back into development activities, we need programs that remain sustainable when the companies depart.”
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