How diamonds fuel Africa's conflicts - CNN

Conflict or "blood" diamonds are illegally traded to fund conflict in war-torn areas, particularly in central and western Africa, according to the World Diamond council, which represents the ...

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Mining Law 2022 | Laws and Regulations | Congo – D.R. | ICLG

Congo – D.R.: Mining Laws and Regulations 2022. ICLG - Mining Laws and Regulations - Congo – D.R. covers common issues in mining laws and regulations – including the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, processing, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, native title and land rights – in 15 jurisdictions.

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Congo Rainforest and Basin | Places | WWF

The Congo Basin is extremely rich in wood, oil and minerals such as diamonds, gold and coltan (used to make cell phones). Many people depend on such resources for their livelihoods, and the global demand for these materials is increasing. A large and growing percentage of the Congo Basin is under concession to logging and mining companies.

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Blood Diamonds & Violence in Africa | Brilliant Earth

But a flourishing diamond trade has not made Angola a more responsible diamond producer. Angola's diamond fields are once again the scene of horrific violence. In recent years, diamond miners from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo have been streaming into northeast Angola to mine for diamonds.

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Democratic Republic of Congo Overview: Development news ...

With a surface area equivalent to that of Western Europe, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). DRC is endowed with exceptional natural resources, including minerals such as cobalt and copper, hydropower potential, significant arable land, immense biodiversity, and the world's second ...

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Country Profile - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Population 70,916,439 (estimated) Languages French (official), Lingale, Swahili, Kikongo, Tshilube Capital City Kinshasa Area 2,345,410 sq km Major Export Diamonds ...

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Milestones: 1961–1968 - Office of the Historian

The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965. The decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s resulted in several proxy Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over the dozens of newly independent, non-aligned nations. The first such confrontation occurred in the former ...

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Republic of the Congo | Extractive Industries Transparency ...

The Republic of the Congo has rich natural resources deposits and a potential in notably crude oil, iron, gold, diamond, phosphate, potach and magnesium. An important share of its mining resources are for now unexploited due to a lack of transportation infrastructure and difficulty to raise funds.

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"Let's Deal": A Conversation with a Diamond Smuggler ...

Welcome to the multimillion-dollar deal-making desk of Douglas Tunga, Congo diamond bootlegger. I came to Tunga as a last resort, one final attempt to find someone, anyone, who could give me a lead on the cowboy hat-wearing kingpin reputed to be the Kinshasa Scarface of the blood diamond trade. I had visions that the badly Photoshopped self ...

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Kibali Gold Mine - an open pit and underground mine in Congo

The Kibali gold mine is situated 560km north-east of Kisangani in the Orientale province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Developed in an area of 1,836km² on the Moto goldfields, the site is one of the largest gold mines in Africa.. The open pit and underground integrated mining at Kibali was commissioned in September 2013 and the mine has a life of 18 years.

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Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Democratic ...

(13) In eastern Congo's conflict-affected regions, children extract and transport tin (cassiterite), tantalum (coltan), tungsten (wolframite), diamonds, and gold. Thousands of children also work in cobalt and copper mines in the DRC's southern Copperbelt region.

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Gems, Warlords and Mercenaries: Russia's Playbook in ...

REPUBLIC OF CONGO. REPUBLIC. ... with murderous rebels to obtain diamonds in areas where the trade ... under suspicious circumstances while looking into his ties to diamond and gold mining. The ...

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On the Banks of the Furious Congo River, a 5-Star Emporium ...

'Blood Diamond of ... logistics company in Nigeria that provides assistance to war-torn areas there. ... based mining companies that …

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Hunt for the 'Blood Diamond of Batteries' Impedes Green ...

Hunt for the 'Blood Diamond of Batteries' Impedes Green Energy Push. Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world's largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars ...

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King Leopold II Biography: The Monster of the Congo ...

King Leopold II ruled over Belgium from 1865 to 1909. Today, the memory of his reign still lives on, and he is glorified with golden statues of his likeness in every major city in Belgium. In history classes, each generation is taught that he was a humanitarian who brought Christianity and the wonders of civilization to The Congo Free State.

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You wouldn't buy a blood diamond, but do you own a ...

98 percent of mined gold is exported illegally from the Congo. The armed groups rule through lawlessness and deliberately avoid any kind of active peace. Peace brings laws, regulation, taxes, and ...

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Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo's Diamond Mines | Time

Congolese diamond buyers Daniel Tunuanga, 61, and Kindambay Funji, 69, look over diamonds in the Mwankenza Comptoir, a diamond trading house, in Tshikapa, Kasaï, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug ...

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Democratic Republic Congo Diamond Mines | Gold Refinery ...

Democratic Republic of Congo . Although the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is Africa's largest diamond producer, production details remain sketchy. The DRC has a long history as a diamond mining country, and is today the third largest diamond-producing country by volume, despite a sharp decline in production in the past few years.

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Conflict Minerals - Worldpress.org

A man stands in a pool of water in a gold mine on Feb. 23, 2009, in Chudja, near Bunia, northeastern Congo. (Photo: Lionel Healing/ AFP-Getty Images) First there were " blood diamonds," the gems that fueled conflict and human rights abuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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Digging up Congo's Dirty Gems - Global Policy Forum

As an example of just how unregulated the diamond trade is, diplomats and diamond dealers here said, there now are direct charter flights to Dubai from some of Congo's richest diamond and gold areas. The planes file no flight plans and no cargo manifests. "Borders here, in terms of control, are a joke," said a senior diplomat in Kinshasa.

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The Price of Precious - National Geographic

Congo is sub-Saharan Africa's largest country and one of its richest on paper, with an embarrassment of diamonds, gold, cobalt, copper, tin, tantalum, you name it—trillions' worth of …

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Africa: Resources | National Geographic Society

Ghana, Guinea, Mali, and Tanzania are other major producers of gold. Africa dominates the global diamond market. In 2008, the continent produced 55 percent of the world's diamonds. Botswana, Angola, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Namibia are Africa's largest producers of diamonds.

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Gold and diamonds in the Central African Republic

Gold and diamonds in Central Africa easily conjure up images of conflict, rebel funding, human rights violations, and smuggling. As a country landlocked within an unstable region, neighbouring the

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(PDF) Gold, diamonds and blood: International state ...

To cite this Article Mullins, Christopher W. and Rothe, Dawn L.(2008) 'Gold, diamonds and blood: International state- corporate crime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo', Contemporary Justice ...

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Blood Diamonds & Violence in Africa | Brilliant Earth

Diamond Producers and Consumers. Most of the world's natural gem-quality diamonds are mined in countries where citizens do not purchase a lot of diamond jewelry. The leading consumers of diamond jewelry include the United States, India, China, the European Union, Japan, Hong Kong, and the Middle East.

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The bloody diamonds of Congo | FairPlanet

The bloody diamonds of Congo. Despite numerous spirited efforts to tame the illicit gold trade in Democratic Republic of Congo, including international sanctions of illegal traders, businessmen and companies that have adversely been mentioned in mineral smuggling, businesses are still thriving and the unlawful trade continues unabated.

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Investigation sounds alarm bell on potential supply chain ...

2 A new investigation by Global Witness looking into the Democratic Republic of Congo's nascent lithium sector sounds the alarm bell on a swathe of …

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Congo History & Timeline — Welcome to the Congo Reform ...

Diamonds are discovered in Kasai. 1935 . ... human rights abuses linked to ruthless efforts by armed groups and multinational companies to control and profit from gold mining areas in northeastern Congo. A Swiss company buying gold from Congo, criticized in the report, immediately announces it will halt its purchases. ...

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Coltan, the Congo and your cell phone

1 DRC has been, sequentially, the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo-Léopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zaire, before becoming the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998 (the ccTLD was changed from .zr to .cd). Kinshasa, the name of the capital, was used to distinguish DRC from the Congo-Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo.

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Top five diamond mining countries of Africa profiled

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the third-largest diamond-producing African country by volume, with most of the stones mined by small-scale artisanal miners, whose number is thought to be between 200,000 and 400,000, according to an estimate by the DRC Chamber of Mines. The Bakwanga and Forminière Diamond Mine are two of Congo's major mines.

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Plundering of DR Congo natural resources: Final report of ...

COSLEG, a Congo-Zimbabwe joint stock company, remains a key vehicle for military-backed commerce involving mostly diamonds, banking and timber in …

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Diamond Mining in Africa - Mining Africa

The exploration race is on to find the next big diamond mines. The Value of Diamonds and Diamond Mining – Uses for Diamonds Currently, diamond mining in Africa produces around half of the world's diamonds, however to date, they have produced over 75% of all diamonds. Over 1, 9 billion carats with a value of around $ 158 billion.

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Amani Gold (ASX:ANL) starts diamond drilling at Kebigada ...

12 Amani Gold (ANL) has kicked off a diamond drilling campaign at the Kebigada gold deposit of its Giro Gold Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project comprises two exploration permits covering 497 square kilometres and lies within the Kilo-Moto Belt, which Amani said is a significant, under-explored greenstone belt.

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Behind the Congo war: diamonds - CSMonitor.com

Most people will say it's for the diamonds, the gold, the timber, and the palm oil. ... to topple Congo's President Laurent Dsir Kabila and clear their border areas of …

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Environmental Case Study Conflict Diamonds

In a similar fashion, Rwanda invaded Congo to gain control over diamonds, gold, and other minerals. In Angola, a quarter-century of civil war was fueled mainly by oil and diamonds. Environmental costs of these wars are incalculable: they include decimated wildlife, poached timber, polluted waters,

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Top Ten Diamond Companies in the World - Petra Gems

The Ten Largest Diamond Manufacturers and Traders in the World Check out James Allen's Diamond 3D HD Technology Here. The diamond trade brings hundreds of thousands of people together from all around the globe. From individual miners cutting up rocks in search of the elusive gem, to the corporations that employ them, to the dealers that aggregate …

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