DRC: DR Congo Army Will Remove 2,000 Illegal Miners from Glencore Site

Jul 2, 2019 | Al Jazeera
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Illegal miners at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo defied a deadline to vacate the site on Tuesday, a union official said, raising fears of a potentially violent standoff. A landslide last Thursday at the Kamoto Copper Company concession, majority-owned by a Glencore subsidiary and located in the southeastern part of the country, killed 43 people, prompting the government to vow to remove the miners.