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Spotlight | DRC
With lithium in trouble, leading battery producer CATL forges ahead on cobalt

Chinese battery maker CATL CEO Robin Zeng.
Chinese battery maker CATL CEO Robin Zeng. © REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Having completed work on their new processing plant, the bosses of China's CATL group and its partner Putailai are now waiting only for the Covid-19 crisis to ease to officially launch operations at the Luisha South mine in Katanga, which is crucial to their development plans in DRC. [...]
Published on 07.05.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes
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In Focus | DRC
Congolese lithium capital Manono set to come under Kabila clan control

After having reigned over Congo-K for the last 22 years, the Kabila family needs to invent a new future for itself. Having left the presidential throne to Felix Tshisekedi in January, the clan has been working for the last two months on plans to fall back on its native Tanganyika province in eastern Congo-K, and, more specifically, to the town of Manono, which, in recent years, has become the capital of African lithium prospecting.

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