Independent analysis of the DRC’s public finances, banking, mining policy and political risk.
Monthly report
August 2026
Reserves rebounded to 8.01 billion USD, but a new by-product mining tax adds to the export ban and the overall outlook eases to 6.2 out of 10. We track the open items for the next edition.
Sources. Each edition monitors a fixed panel of fifteen DRC-focused sources, including the central bank, the finance, budget and mines ministries, and the national press. Any outside source is cited where it is used.
Fact and analysis. Every item separates what was published from what we think it means.
Judgement stated as judgement. Scores, risk probabilities and outlooks are our assessment, not reported fact.
Conflicts and gaps recorded. Where sources disagree we show both figures. Where nothing was published, we say so.
Period discipline. Only developments from the reporting month are reported as new.