Cutting the cost of assets of $ 7.3b in Congo

He is charged with international donors to the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of elections in the Central African country next week for a blow on the fire sale of mineral resources and unfair to assume.

Documents uncovered by a British MP that the Congo, one of the world's poorest countries, President Joseph Kabila of the Republic of state mining assets overseen a series of secretly married to a U.S. $ 5.5 billion dollars (7.3 billion dollars) is lost. The country's net foreign companies, public activity in the last four years, during which the British Virgin Islands, out of the market value of off-owned sector and sales of some rich mines.

Unannounced, and invited any other offers - concessions for sale - one of the values ​​of 1 / 16, which went for. Congo's government, despite the fire sale of the responsibility on the international byanjaka. International Monetary Fund (IMF-) Democratic Republic of the Congo for the loan of U.S. $ 551 million two years ago, more transparency in the mining and conditional approval.

British MP Eric Joyce, who chairs the African Great Lakes and all the party groups. "Republic of the Congo, people are losing their natural resources, and tax revenue and jobs, such as the IMF-and the world's governments to agree to the Kabila government will enforce standards to achieve the" Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is decade of civil war, U.S. $ 20 trillion, and the consumption of mineral resources. The amount of money lost U.S. $ 80 per person in the country - the international aid budget for the entire country, which is valued at more than $ 3.1 billion U.S. dollars.

Republic of the Congo's budget accounts for half of Western aid. "This is the news that a big financial help to the serious attitude of the Congo, and the impact will be among the donors," said Jason Stearns, analyst Congo. Bahati said Modeste Lukwebo, Chairman of the Audit Committee of the National Economic and financial, being ignorant of the state government-owned mining company, declined to comment on that.

Kabila, who is ten years after coming to power, a strong anti-sizes of 28 November elections. He changed the Constitution of the United States this year, against the opposition candidate - to avoid a run off.

Hussain Haqqani resigned Ambassadorship

 

Husain Haqqani, the United States, Osama bin Laden in Pakistan after the killing last May to ask for help to avoid a military takeover of the accused to prepare a memorandum. Ambassador denied that the allegations made by pressure groups, the United States-based.

Under the intense pressure of a class already strained relations between Pakistan's civilian and military leaders have been developed. Pakistan's civilian and military leaders on Tuesday after meeting with his resignation - Mr. Haqqani was invited last week in Islamabad. "We have to PM Gilani to the United States, the National Post to my resignation has been accepted," shortly after meeting privately with the other.

State television said that his resignation has been accepted. "I am free of prejudice and intolerance, and the building of a new Pakistan does not have to contribute," Haqqani said in another Twitter post. "We have the power.'s Focus will be," Pakistani President Asif Zardari and army chief and head of intelligence services, after a meeting with his resignation.

The Prime Minister and the Reuters news agency that he requested Mr. Haqqani, and the resignation of the notes will be an investigation, a spokesman for his office. More than any role in the formulation or delivery note Mr. Haqqani, a close ally of President Zardari, denied. However, the former U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, President of the United States recently, that he had received a secret message. But he did not pay any attention to any steps that do not follow.