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Breaking news DRC Issue dated 29/08/2013

KCC finally ditches Forrest

A new chapter has opened in Katanga. The slow eviction of renowned Belgian businessman Georges Forrest from Katanga's copper industry [...] (157 words)
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Insiders DRC 29/08/2013

Mines at the heart of ethnic allegiances 

In this enormous country where central power is weak, ethnic allegiance counts above everything, particularly in the mineral resources sector where the political and economic stakes are high. Whoever controls the copper, cobalt, diamond and cassiterite mines of this vast land controls the manna which will finance the presidential and provincial elections of the future and the military operations needed to repel foreign forces. [...]

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