Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Gabrielle Nina is freelance journalist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She writes on health, climate change, infrastructure , agriculture and gender. She was also one of the health correspondents of Voice of America. She was previously a fellow for the International Journalism Program, spending two months in Germany, and was an intern at Deutsche Welle in Bonn. She reported on the dire transformation of a quiet residence area into a mining field boom, with attentive environmental and social impacts in Kolwezi, in mineral rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. USAID-Funded and World Resources Institute funded my geo-journalism grant. She was in South Congo, investigating why amid a mining resource boom, electricity is scarce. I unraveled the corrupt connection of mining corporations and energy cartels. She followed up on this theme as one of five journalists investigating energy poverty and potential solutions in sub-Saharan Africa for the 2017 Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship detailing how energy shortage is vortex mixed with climate change and resource mining. She went further and reported to expose how high level of corruption in Congo´s election allegedly saw senators and lawmakers exchanging “gifts” and cash for election set bargaining
The Democratic Republic of Congo has abundant natural resources, but only 13.5% of the population has access to energy. In this paradox, the mining industry offers a possible solution to the country’s energy crisis
The 923m long bridge is being constructed at the Kazungula crossing, where Botswana and Zambia share a border measuring about 750m over the Zambezi River. The bridge will connect Zambia and Botswana and link the port of Durban in South Africa to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kasulo, a small residential area in the town of Kolwezi, in the southeastern part of the DRC, the quiet little corner of the family has been transformed into several mini-quarries of cobalt and copper, creating disruptions as much on the families as on the environment of the small neighborhood of yesteryear. No one could imagine that a whole neighborhood, previously residential, could disappear.
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