• Congo-Kinshasa: From Conflict Gold to Criminal Gold in East - Same Miners, Different Enemies

    Southern Africa Resource Watch (Johannesburg), 15 November 2012

    Gold miners in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) no longer fear homicidal warlords and militias but they are still being ruthlessly exploited – by a plague of corrupt government officials, bureaucrats and security personnel, who all demand illegal taxes, fees and levies from the miners without delivering any meaningful services in return, according to a major research report ...

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