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EmiAfrica SARL

About EmiAfrica SARL

EmiAfrica SARL is a multidisciplinary company and one of the global leaders in environmental and advisory solutions. We deliver advice and support from a network of offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Burundi and Mauritius.

Reliability

Achievement

Continuous
Development

Creativity

Courage

Inclusiveness

We are an employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in environmental science and management, climate change assessment, training education and scientific research. Our team takes pride in partnering with clients to provide committed, collaborative and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects.

We have given much consideration to our purpose as a business – why we do what we do. We have thought long and hard about what success means to us, and how we measure it.

Success to us means that the best organizations put us at the top of their list of consultants they want to work with. We recognize that financial success only occurs when we add significant value to our clients’ businesses. Our vision of success is that the clients we serve will respect us, enjoy working with us and view us as trusted partners.

Our people have a deep desire to help and guide our clients in ways that will make them successful. We do that through what we know best – the application of science, technology and management for our clients’ needs both now and in the future. We are guided by our duty to our clients, our communities and ourselves.

Empowering Passionate People to Create Better Solutions

At EmiAfrica, we empower passionate professionals within a collaborative, innovative, and caring environment as we work with clients to co-create insightful solutions to whatever challenges they may be facing. Our ability to anticipate, understand, and provide deep insights into the environmental and sciences needs of our clients results in both sustainable outcomes and long-term partnerships. Our commitment to individual empowerment and ongoing development enables us to not only best service our clients, but better influence our own destinies as we shape the future of the communities and great world around us.

Balancing the Opportunities of Today With The Needs Of Tomorrow

Our vision is to be known and sought out for our ability to bring elegant, simple, and sustainable solutions to our clients’ most compelling opportunities and complex challenges. Having earned the trust to be daring in execution, our people will be recognized for their success in balancing competing priorities to maximize the possibilities of today without compromising the potential of tomorrow. We will be at the leading edge of people development in order to achieve this vision.

At EmiAfrica, our shared expectations and beliefs bind us. Our culture and values are critical to our success as an employer, a service provider and corporate citizen. We have captured our core values within six key themes:

  • Reliability
    Words that results in action build trust.
  • Achievement
    Do the work to hit the target.
  • Continuous Development
    Always learning, always adapting, always growing.
  • Creativity
    Discover new opportunities.
  • Courage
    Do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard.
  • Inclusiveness
    Enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

Meet Our Team

At EmiAfrica SARL we take pride in working closely with our clients to help them meet their business objectives and develop new projects. In collaboration with our clients and industry experts, we seek to constantly improve the value of our service. Our team serves with great dedication to help make the greatest possible impact.

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M Kalumba

Managing Director/Founder

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J Luhembwe

TES Director

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A Ngangole

Managing Director

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S Luboya

Biodiversity Specialist

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D Mizibu

SE Specialist

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G Kalenga

ABD Director

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I Monga

Admin Officer - Legal

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D Mutomb

IT Officer

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R Etangola

SE Specialist

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SE Specialist

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D Mujimwino

Geologist/GIS Specialist

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Merimee Kalumba

(Managing Director)


Merimee has more than 14 years of experience in the environmental and social Impact assessment in African countries. Over his wide-ranging career, he has gained experience in business development, operations, corporate strategy, country entry, technology start-ups, mergers & acquisitions, management consulting and advisory, and major project delivery across the mining, energy, agriculture, special economic zone and infrastructure sectors.

His key strength is identifying and managing ESG risks for major capital projects from the concept phase through to the pre-feasibility, feasibility and implementation phases. He has an integral knowledge of the African Development Bank, Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards and understands the expectations of lenders and financial institutions when it comes to managing ESG risks. His core expertise includes Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA / ESIA), including strategic assessments, stakeholder engagement, Greenhouses Gaz inventory and Climate Change Impact Assessment. He has managed complex projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern and West Africa for a range of sectors, including mining, infrastructure, industrial and special economic zone, renewable and conventional power generation, and agriculture.

Merimee has expertise in Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) reviews against Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) and acting as the Independent Environmental and Social Consultant (IESC) for Lenders on projects in Africa.

Merimee also undertakes stakeholder engagement since 2016 for a range of projects, including renewable energy, infrastructure and mine (Planning-Construction-Operation-closure) projects in the DRC and others African countries.

He is an associate of the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP), a board member of Congo Green Metals SARL, and has served as an Advisory member of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Pollution for UN.

 

John Luhembwe

(Technical and Energy Sector Director – DRC: Lubumbashi and Kolwezi office)


John career has focused on sustainability in mining, energy, resources, and infrastructure sectors. His project experience includes more than 14 years in project development with integrated environmental and social performance on major capital programs in the energy transition, mining and mineral processing, and linear infrastructure.

He held strategic leadership and management roles at the Ministry of electricity and water resources, with global responsibility for Energy Transition & Sustainability, Power & Transport, and Environment & Society, and regional responsibility for the Lualaba Province.

John continues to develop her expertise, within EmiAfrica, by becoming part of high-level studies such as environmental impact assessments, feasibility study, integrated water resource management studies, resource vulnerability studies, input into groundwater modelling project as well as stakeholder engagement/liaison in public, mining, infrastructure and renewable energy sectors.

 

Adam Ngangole

(Managing Director – EmiAfrica Zambia)


Adams has over 26 years of environmental and social consulting experience in Zambia and DRC. His key strength is identifying and managing ESG risks for major capital projects from the concept phase through to the pre-feasibility, feasibility and implementation phases. Through leading Environmental & Social Screening Studies, Environmental & Social Impact Assessments and Environmental & Social Due Diligences for major capital project in African countries. Adams has worked for and with a variety of firms to identify and manage ESG risks of their investments in Africa. He has an integral knowledge of the African Development Bank, Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards and understands the expectations of lenders and financial institutions when it comes to managing ESG risks.

Selva Luboya

(Biodiversity Specialist)


Selva is a dedicated Biodiversity Specialist with 14 years of experience in ecological field surveys, habitat assessment, and environmental impact mitigation. Selva has proven ability to design science-based monitoring programs that protect endangered species and ensure regulatory compliance for large-scale projects. He has experience in Ecosystem mapping, wetland delineation, and botanical/faunal inventorying, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, remote sensing, and satellite imagery interpretation; Statistical analysis of population trends, ecological modeling, and diversity indices calculation, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, and local conservation.

Didier Mizibu

(Socio-Economic Specialist)


Didier is a highly qualified E&S specialists based in DRC. Didier is responsible of Stakeholder consultation notes, local grievances, and land-use impacts; Location Metadata: Exact GPS coordinates, site name, region, and layout map reference. Didier also Conduct sound level surveys using calibrated Class 1/Type 2 sound level meters to record \(L_{Aeq}\), \(L_{max}\), and peak values. He also Produce at EmiAfrica technical survey reports, mapping noise contours, and maintaining compliance registers.

 

Dr. Guy Kalenga

(Administration and Business Development Director)


Dr. Kalenga is a Health and Safety professional with over 10 years of experience in various industries as such mining, energy and now Environmental and Engineering Consulting. He is passionate about working with others to mitigate occupational risks, cultivate the strong safety culture, engage in various topics to ensure not only legal compliance but also best practices in and around the Africa region.

At EmiAfrica, Dr. Guy leads company administration and marketing strategy for the DRC with the support from the General Manager. He supports the regional management team, to foster growth and negotiate across all sectors, technical disciplines and across all countries on the African continent where EmiAfrica has its footprint.

 

Immaculée Monga

(Admin – Legal DRC)


Immaculée joined EmiAfrica in 2025 and is the DRC Office Administration responsible for the Africa region. With 2 years of corporate business support experience, her expertise spanned interior design, IT network support, marketing, project and office administration and facilities management.

In her role, Immaculée leads the business support team, continuously refining her ability to build and manage a high-performing team, develop and implement effective processes, and foster strong relationships with stakeholders to achieve business objectives. She is also responsible for the space planning as well as property and facilities management for the region, dedicated to ensuring that the offices’ functionality and sustainability are consistently maintained.

 

Dieudo Mutomb

(IT Officer)


Running an IT consultancy whilst supporting EmiAfrica, servicing various small to medium companies, a primary role was to manage IT and modelling at EmiAfrica. In his capacity as IT Officer for the DRC Office and QC, he is responsible for ensuring compliance to, and maintenance of the compliance of all EmiAfrica documents.

 

Remy Etangola

(Socio-Economic Specialist)


Remy is an experienced socio-economic survey supervisor based in DRC with extensive experience working in Africa and specific experience in the Energy and Mining sector. Remy has experience in Social safeguards, livelihood restoration, and stakeholder engagement. Remy has experience on working knowledge of World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESS5 on Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement), IFC Performance Standards (PS5), or regional development bank frameworks.

 

Gaby Yumba

(SE Specialist)


Gaby is a highly qualified E&S specialists based in DRC. Gaby has conducted numerous survey including Mining and Energy project development and operations. Gaby has experience in Socio-economic baseline data collection, asset valuation methodologies, census and inventory of losses (IoL), livelihood restoration plan (LRP) design, and grievance redress mechanisms (GRM).

 

Daniel Mujimwino

(Geologist and GIS Specialist)


Daniel is a Geologist and GIS Specialist with 5 + years of experience merging field structural mapping with advanced spatial modeling. Daniel focus in surface/subsurface data collection, spatial analysis, and producing high-accuracy thematic maps to optimize resource exploration and environmental risk assessments. Daniel has managed and been involved in numerous feasibility studies (ranging from Scoping to Definitive / Bankable) and technical due diligence reviews in projects ranging from early-stage exploration assets to operating mine sites and energy sector. He has successfully:

• Integrated field structural datasets with ArcGIS geodatabases, reducing spatial data redundancy by 15%;
• Conducted ground geological surveys and translated field observations into digital maps, improving spatial accuracy by 30%.
• Managed spatial assets and generated technical reports for exploration targets, lowering project logistical overhead by 12%.