When the deadline passed, U.N. Congo Chief Sture Linner reported: “At least 104 foreign personnel failed to give any account of themselves.” O’Brien de manded compliance. In answer, Katanga ...

Concessionary companies made enormous profits in the Congo Free State ... the global geopolitical landscape: uranium – extracted from the Shinkolobwe mine in Katanga. It was the Belgian colonial ...

Hundreds of people have been brutally killed and more than 150,000 have fled their homes in remote parts of Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local residents of the area ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa (June 2017), pp. 204-219 (16 ...

the conflict in eastern Congo and the associated conflict minerals trade; and the bribery and poverty associated with extracting copper and cobalt from Katanga. Congo’s leaders have redirected ...

Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo is blessed with enormous natural wealth, including vast deposits of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, and tantalum. Katanga saw a ...