Who benefits from the mining industry in the DRC?
Audio 49:00
Cobalt mines in the DRC are subject to global exploitation.
Michael Robinson Chavez / The Washington Post via Getty Images
By: Alain Foka
50 mins
Copper, gold, cobalt, silver, zinc, diamond, manganese ... The Democratic Republic of the Congo is often described as a geological scandal, and yet the country is still struggling to develop.
Has the new mining code promulgated on March 9, 2018 by President Joseph Kabila a game-changer?
How can the Congolese hope to benefit from the income from their mineral wealth?
Publicity
With our guests:
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Sama Lukonde Kyenge
, General Manager of the General of Quarries and Mines (Gécamines)
- Louis Watum
, president of Kamla Copper and Kipushi corporation, and president of the Chamber of Mines
- Marie-Chantal Kaninda
, executive director of Glencore-RDC, former director of the World Diamond Council
- Kalaa Mpinga
, mining and agro-industrial entrepreneur, former Anglo American administrator for Africa, founder of Mwana Africa.
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