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Spotlight | DRC, Rwanda, Uganda
DRC gold at heart of Museveni and Kagame's new showdown

Rwanda's president Paul Kagame with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni. © Xinhua News Agency/via Latin America News Agency/Reuters

Rwanda and Uganda are engaged in a tug of war over who will host the main transit route for gold mined in the DRC before it is shipped out of Africa. Both countries want the lucrative business for themselves and are hoping to force Kinshasa to choose between them, with Kigali in the lead. [...]

Published on 23.08.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

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Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

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Kampala embarrassed by two tonnes of missing gold

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US Treasury unlikely to let Alain Goetz's Aldabra off hook over gold trafficking allegations

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Elgon Minerals may need to tap DRC gold for new Uganda refinery

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General Kazura spearheads Kigali's continental security diplomacy

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Future Busia refinery heightens gold smuggling concerns

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Belgian gold refiner Alain Goetz battles for his interests in the Great Lakes region

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