DRC Mining Week postponed to Oct 7-9

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Democratic Republic of Congo Mining Week originally scheduled to hold at The Pullman Grand Karavia Hotel in Lubumbashi&comma; DRC between June 17-19&comma; has been postponed&period; The postponement is not unconnected with COVID-19  pandemic&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The health and safety of our exhibitors&comma; visitors&comma; employees and the wider public is of paramount importance to us&comma;” says managing director David Ashdown&period; The new date is October 7-9 at same venue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A&NewLine;statement signed by Senior communications manager&colon; Annemarie Roodbol&comma; made&NewLine;available to OpenLife stated that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;due to the current status of the global&NewLine;COVID-19 virus and the ban applied on mass gatherings by the government of the&NewLine;Democratic Republic of Congo&comma; Clarion Events Africa &lpar;formerly Spintelligent&rpar; is&NewLine;rescheduling&nbsp&semi;<strong>DRC Mining&NewLine;Week<&sol;strong>&period; The event&comma; which was due to take place from 17-19 June&comma;&NewLine;will now run from 7-9 October 2020&period; The venue &&num;8211&semi; The Pullman Grand&NewLine;Karavia&nbsp&semi;Hotel in Lubumbashi&comma; DRC &&num;8211&semi; remains unchanged&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;Mining Week&comma; on its 16th&nbsp&semi;edition&comma; is expected&NewLine;to &nbsp&semi;attract over 5&comma;000 local and&NewLine;international mining stakeholders and influencers from across public and&NewLine;private sectors&comma; doing business in the DRC and is recognised as the largest&comma;&NewLine;B2B mining expo in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">It<strong> <&sol;strong> is organised by Clarion Events Africa&comma; a leading Cape Town-based and multi-award winning organiser of exhibitions and conferences across the continent in the infrastructure&comma; energy and mining sectors&period; Other well-known events by Clarion Events Africa include African Utility Week &amp&semi; POWERGEN Africa&comma; Africa Mining Forum&comma; Nigeria Mining Week&comma; Future Energy East Africa and Future Energy Nigeria&period; The company is part of the UK-based Clarion Events Group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;