Mineral production in the DRC, already under threat due to a lack of investment, is facing lean times as a result of the war, the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts. The eastern Kasai-based Societe miniere de Bakwanga (Miba) has been able to only marginally increase its already meagre revenue to US $1.4 million in the first six months of 1998 from US $1.1 million over the same period in 1997. Due to the fall in international prices, oil revenue slumped from US $36.4 million in the first six months of 1997 to US $9.9 million over the same period in 1998.
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