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Bisie conflict-free but still troubled

Closed down for security reasons in 2010, Bisie, the country’s leading cassiterite mine situated in North Kivu, is being put [...] (265 words)
Issue dated 27/08/2013 Reading time 2 minutes
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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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