Africell was a prominent presence at DRC Mining Week 2026 in Lubumbashi, the biggest annual event in the calendar of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s thriving mining industry.
Held in the heart of the Katanga copperbelt, DRC Mining Week brings together mining companies, investors, government representatives and service providers from across the region and around the world. Its significance extends well beyond the DRC. As global demand accelerates for copper, cobalt and other minerals essential to the energy transition, the DRC has become one of the most strategically important mining jurisdictions anywhere.
Africell Business, Africell’s recently launched enterprise services platform, was out in force throughout the event. Mining operations depend on fast, secure and reliable connectivity: from remote site communications and IoT-enabled equipment monitoring to data services, cloud solutions and mobile financial tools for large distributed workforces. Africell Business meets exactly these needs, and DRC Mining Week provided an ideal platform to demonstrate its services to the country’s most significant industrial players.
Alongside its exhibition presence, Africell Business hosted a private reception for senior mining industry leaders, bringing together executives from major operators, contractors and financial institutions for an evening of discussion about the digital infrastructure underpinning the sector’s growth.
Kory Webster, CEO of Africell DRC, delivered a speech at the event exploring the deepening synergies between the mining and telecoms sectors.
“Mining and telecoms are two industries building the DRC’s future, and they are increasingly inseparable,” he said. “Modern mining runs on connectivity. Africell is investing in the networks and enterprise services that make this possible and DRC Mining Week is where those partnerships are forged.”
Africell is one of the DRC’s fastest-growing mobile network operators, serving millions of customers with affordable voice, data and mobile financial services. Through Africell Business, the company is extending that infrastructure to enterprise customers across the country’s most important industries. In 2025, Africell released Lobito Bound, a feature documentary about mining infrastructure in DRC, Angola and Zambia, which is now streaming to an audience of up to 250 million on Prime Video and Apple TV.
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