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Spotlight | DRC
Mines minister Kabwelulu in firing line

Mines minister Martin Kabwelulu seems to have walked straight into a storm. The object of a motion of censure by an opposition legislator, Germain Kamdinga, in early May, Kabwelulu will find himself in the crosshairs of many other MPs in [...]
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Mines at the heart of ethnic allegiances

In this enormous country where central power is weak, ethnic allegiance counts above everything, particularly in the mineral resources sector where the political and economic stakes are high. Whoever controls the copper, cobalt, diamond and cassiterite mines of this vast land controls the manna which will finance the presidential and provincial elections of the future and the military operations needed to repel foreign forces.

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