More than 20 trucks have been intercepted with their cargo at the Kasumbalesa border crossing into Zambia and a copper and cobalt processing factory has been shut down in a flurry of seizures in recent weeks at Ruashi Mining, which operates a mine of the same name in Haut-Katanga province. This is beginning to seriously affect the affairs of this subsidiary of the Chinese firm Jinchuan Group. The arrival of bailiffs, backed by police officers, followed several rulings made last year by the Kinshasa