DRC: In the DRC, a Government Commission Is Taking Funds Owed to People Relocated by Mines

Aug 20, 2024 | Didier Makal, Mongabay
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After a devastating human toll of 11 dead and several ill due to continued air and river pollution, the village of Kabombwa has definitively disappeared from the map. More than 1,000 residents have found housing elsewhere in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) province of Lualaba, including in the neighboring mining town of Fungurume.