Who benefits from the mining industry in the DRC?

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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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, 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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