DRC: By Whom Is the DRC Plundering Its Minerals?

Journal of Africa
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These are alarming reports regularly published by NGOs and the United Nations (UN). All have the same conclusions: Congolese minerals are disappearing, mainly because of corruption and, ultimately, smuggling. The losses would be colossal: a billion dollars a year, just for the illegal trafficking of minerals, according to the Congolese Minister of Finance, Nicolas Kazadi, who fired this week in the Financial Times, the alarm bell.