The American engineering consulting firm Aecom, which acquired the privately owned Montreal-based firm, Tecsult International, in 2008 for its hydropower expertise[REF] and employs 2,000 people in the province of Quebec,[REF] was awarded in 2011 a $13.4m.
Since 1996, Banro has held gold concessions in South Kivu and Maniema provinces of the DRC,[REF] while six other Canadian companies previously owned Congolese gold properties, including Barrick Gold (1996-1998),[REF][REF] and Moto Goldmines (2005-2009).