Progress and Challenges on Conflict Minerals: Facts on Dodd-Frank 1502
Publisher: Enough Project
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: Congo (DRC)
Conflict minerals have fueled and continue to help sustain armed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), linking them to the deadliest conflict globally since World War II. The four conflict minerals (gold, along with tin, tantalum, and tungsten, the “3Ts”) are not the only source of income to armed groups, but they are some of the most lucrative. The illegal exploitation of natural resources today is a manifestation of the grand corruption linked to violence that has marked successive governments in Kinshasa and the broader region since colonial times.