DRC: Forced Evictions from DR Congo Mineral-Rich Villages Blights Outlook

Sep 25, 2023 | Patrick Ilunga, East African
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Kolwezi town in the Democratic Republic of Congo was nicknamed the cobalt capital of the world for having plenty of the mineral. The town in Lualaba Province in the south of the country is one of the reasons the DRC has nearly half the world’s cobalt reserves and accounts for 70 percent of global production.