Congo-Kinshasa: Poverty Amid Riches in Katanga

Katanga province holds many of the country's mineral reserves but few of the many millions in taxes are invested in economic or social development, leaving the population mired in poverty.

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Katanga Sinking Deeper Into Chaos

    OSISA, 3 March 2014

    The row over how to patch up the severed highway was heating up. With truck crews close to blows over who should lay the massive rocks into the mud that had halted traffic for a… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Poverty Amid Mining Riches in Katanga

    UNIRIN, 27 February 2014

    The row over how to patch up the severed highway was heating up. With truck crews close to blows over who should lay the massive rocks into the mud that had halted traffic for a… Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:  Katanga On a Knife Edge

    ThinkAfricaPress, 24 February 2014

    With the secessionist group Bakata Katanga agitating for independence and Kabila's support in the province waning, Katanga looks precariously balanced. Read more »

  • Congo-Kinshasa:   Bishop Terms Violence in Katanga 'Unspeakable'

    CISA, 25 February 2014

    "Let us say it loud and clear that our populations are not cannon fodder," say the Bishops of Katanga (in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo) who denounce the serious… Read more »

  • Zambia:   Conflict On DRC, Zambia Border Threatens Regional Trade

    IPS, 21 February 2014

    Truck driver Alfred Ndlovu transports cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) mineral rich Katanga Province to South Africa twice a month. He has been doing this for… Read more »

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