WALIKALE, Democratic Republic of Congo — For the past 10 years, a Canadian-registered company, Alphamin Bisie, has been mining tin in a concession in Walikale, northwest of Goma, the principal ...
Coltan/Tantalum in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Credits: ) Proxy international wars disguised as civil wars Although Mobutu Sese Seko's Congo (1965-1997), then known as Zaire, was a corrupt dictatorial regime, the mining industry had been nationalized in the Katanga region and partially nationalized in …
The Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a significant factor in the world's production of cobalt, copper, diamond, tantalum, tin, and gold as well. It is the Democratic Republic of the Congo's largest source of export income. In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
The 20 million strong population of Eastern Congo is afflicted by a complete lack of government, absence of law and ever-changing rules which are imposed by invading armies from Rwanda and Uganda, and roving bands of well-armed predators. A UN Security Council report has highlighted that coltan is perpetuating Congo's civil war.
The commission of enquiry of the Belgian Senate on the exploitation of mineral resources of Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) on Friday heard the testimony …
The bulk of coltan exported from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as much as 60 to 70 per cent, has been mined under the direct surveillance of RPA mining détachés and evacuated by ...
The main mining areas in Congo are Katanga in the south and Kivu in the east. In Katanga, mainly cobalt and copper are mined, in Kivu coltan, gold and diamonds. ... a London-based mining brokerage company, of supporting the paramilitary group RCD-Goma through the coltan purchase on which an 8% levy had been imposed by the rebel …
The Goma-based Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) has disclosed that three foreigners were partners in the company, Somigl, to …
coltan mining company in the Great Lakes, namely SOMIGIL. Within a few months it was able to resell 236 tonnes for $2.36 million, a deal from which only the RCD-Goma profited. Deprived of revenues, former exporters scrambled to attract global public interest, playing on concerns over the fate of the gorillas of the Kivus. Coltan was not the ...
This study is an analysis of how military issues can contribute to a sustainable ending of civil wars, particularly in Africa. The continuous warfare in the Democratic Republic for the Congo (DRC) between 1996 and 2004 is used to understand the nature of civil wars and how they relate to classical strategic theory of war in general and their termination in particular.
Coltan Mining and Trade in Rwanda 7 Coltan Mining and Trade in Kivu Province, Eastern DRC 8 Security Situation in Kahuzi-Biega National Park 10 The "Independent Consultant's" Report and Interview 10 The "Negotiator" 11 The Position of ICCN 12 The Position of RCD-Goma 13 The Rwandan Government's Position 14 Bushmeat, Orphaned Apes ...
The arc extending from Bunagana on the Uganda border, through Kanyabayonga, to Goma on the Rwanda border, covers a lucrative mining belt containing some of the world's largest deposits of coltan ...
Our guide, a 16-year-old miner called Inocence, must walk for an hour to reach his post at the largest coltan mine in the country. "Sometimes the mountain caves in," he tells us.
Coltan smuggling from the DRC flourishes because of variations in prices set in mining areas and those found in the black markets of northern Katanga, Goma, South Kivu in DRC and Gisenyi in …
The mineral is refined to tantalum powder, which is used to make heat-resistant capacitors in laptops, cellphones, and other high-end electronic devices. The global coltan market was valued at US ...
According to Nestor Kiyimbi, the head of the RCD Mining and Land Department, the creation of Somigl was justified by the under-estimation of the exploited …
minerals – including diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, cassiterite (tin ore) and coltan – to timber and oil. 1 But this vast natural wealth has brought nothing but ... (RCD) – and its three factions RCD-Goma, RCD-Mouvement de libération (RCD-ML) and RCD ... considerations at play. 13 The mining sector symbolised that control. Shaba was one ...
challenge is not to erase the Kivu from the coltan mining map, but to institute a fairer and less harmful way of mining and trading coltan. The coltan trade is closely intertwined …
diamonds and coltan. While sites for coltan mining (still very profitable) have been at the centre of the looting throughout eastern Congo since 1996/7, it is high quality gold that tops ... (respectively RCD-ML and RCD-Goma)2 and the business people who control the trade. Rebel administrations impose excessively high levels of 'taxation ...
Young artisans, mostly under 18, from the villages near Goma in North Kivu who work in coltan mining face severe occupational hazards. Radon, a radioactive substance associated with coltan, has been linked to lung cancer, and these child miners interact daily with the mineral without precautionary safeguards .
Since 2002, Goma has been occupied by the Rally for Congolese Democracy (now RCD-Goma), a front for the Rwandan government, recently in collaboration with a much diminished central government in the DRC capital city of Kinshasa. ..., 520-521), "informal" ventures became the rule (De Boeck 1996; Jackson 2001; 2002; 2003a; 2003b). Though …
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At the end of 2000, a sudden demand for tantalum capacitors caused a boom on the coltan market, precipitating massive price rises and a rush in mining activities. In the …