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Rubaya, Bahunde, Masisi Territory, North Kivu, DR Congo : Mining area around the town of Rubaya. The area is presently plagued by strong ethnic and political tensions, and by the frequent conflicts between SMB (Société Minière de Bisunzu), holder of ...
changed the life of the population of war-torn North Kivu province in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo', Pole Institute, 2002 55 Ibid, p.6 56 Pourtier, Roland. The Mining Economy in the Kivu and Its Regional Implications: Report Following a Mission to North Kivu, South Kivu and Rwanda 17 April-9 May 2004. INICA, 2004.
DEEP in the jungle of North Kivu, a lawless province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new road is being cut through the canopy. As birds chirp, hand saws cut noisily through trees.
The mining in the Province of North Kivu is mainly for gold, cassiterite, coltan, diamonds, tourmaline, pyrochlore, wolfram…. These minerals are extracted …
Bisie tin underground project is located in Walikale District, North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Alphamin Resources holds 80.75% stake in the project through its subsidiary Alphamin Bisie …
September 2, 2022: In eastern Congo (North Kivu province) a United Nations helicopter crashed near the city of Goma. The helicopter was supporting a UN food assistance program. Three crewmen were injured. In Uganda, a court sentenced two men to 17 years each in prison. The men poisoned and killed six lions in Queen Elizabeth …
According to the government's mining department, there are 27 officially registered quarries and 46 unofficial ones in North Kivu alone. It is not just local militia …
Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu. Photo by Tom Stoddart via Getty ImagesThe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rich in natural resources – its untapped deposits of minerals are estimated to be worth US trillion. Gold, diamonds, cobalt and …
Reuters. March 4 (Reuters) - A gold rush drawing thousands to a village in Congo's South Kivu province has driven authorities to ban mining there until more oversight is established, the ...
Alphamin Bisie Mining SA (ABM) is the DRC operating company and tin concentrate producer that mines and processes tin ore from its high-grade deposit issued under DRC's Mining Code as Production Permit No. 13155, in Walikale Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ABM SA's shareholders include the holding
Mining in Rubaya, one of the region's main sources of income, is done artisanally. No powerful mechanical diggers can be found in these open-pit mines set against the verdant backdrop of the Masisi Territory in the North Kivu Province. Instead, mineworkers use shovels, picks, and their own muscular arms.
The territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely diverse, with more than 200 ethnic groups that trace their histories to many communal organizations and kingdoms. The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, ruled the area around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries. Meanwhile, to the …
Alphamin Resources is a low cost tin concentrate producer from its high grade deposit at Mpama North. This is on its mining license and it has an additional five exploration licenses covering a total of 1,270km 2 in the …
Currently, about 382 000 artisanal miners dig for minerals in eastern Congo's 2,700 mining sites. Because there are so many, the central government struggles to get a grip on them. The minerals ...
More than 5.5 million people have been displaced — 700,000 just this year, according to the United Nations. Conflict is escalating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, home to more than 100 ...
WALIKALE, Democratic Republic of Congo — For the past 10 years, a Canadian-registered company, Alphamin Bisie, has been mining tin in a concession in Walikale, northwest of Goma, the principal ...
The procedure for exporting minerals from North and South Kivu is an administrative headache, a situation that the DRC employers' federation believes leads to …
The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has seen little respite from conflict in more than two …
The rich mineral mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo supply valuable minerals to the tech industry, but they come at a deadly cost that is finally being faced. …
The campaign organization carried out fieldwork in the DRC provinces of North and South Kivu for six months in 2021, interviewing more than 90 people drawn from government, civil society, academia ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued to experience serious human rights violations, including mass killings in the context of armed conflict and inter-communal violence, a crackdown on dissent and ill-treatment of detainees. People from regions affected by armed conflict, including eastern DRC, were particularly affected amid ...
With dozens of overlapping armed groups operating in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, accurate figures are hard to come by, but the ADF is believed to have killed at least 2,238 people and abducted ...
Congolese M23 rebels Sunday seized the strategic mining town of Rubaya in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu province, residents and a security mapping monitor said Monday. The ...
The activities of armed groups in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo present a grave threat to efforts to improve national security and regional stability, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, stressing the need for a comprehensive political strategy to address the conflict's …
2 days agoThe U.S. drew up a multi-part deal for Congo and Rwanda to deescalate fighting between their forces. ... the capital of North Kivu province in eastern Congo. "There are tens and tens of ...
A number of these soldiers were moved down from North Kivu. Once the number of troops was reduced in North Kivu, another RDF contingent invaded the Congo and drove the Mai-Mai and FOCA out Walikale Territory and the periphery of Lueshe. They then proceeded to export minerals from these mining sites back to Rwanda on cargo …
29 March 2022 Peace and Security. Amid deteriorating security in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the top UN envoy in the country has called for a comprehensive political strategy that includes measures to address the structural causes of the conflicts. Bintou Keita, who heads the UN Stabilization Mission in the ...
Ten people were killed in a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Lubero territory in North Kivu province overnight on Wednesday, local authorities have said – additional victims ...
Conflicts between members of an artisanal miners' cooperative called Cooperamma and the coltan mining company SMB led to violence that claimed lives on the mining site at Rubaya in North Kivu ...
18 Jul 2023. The United Arab Emirates has signed a $1.9bn deal with a state mining company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to develop at least four mines in the African country's ...
Kasay GM (2018) Geology, Geochemistry and Economic potential of the Bingo carbonatite and its associated laterites in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). University of Nairobi Van Wambeke L (1971) Pandaïte, baddeleyite and associated minerals from the Bingo niobium deposit, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
A total of 3,239 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern provinces of North Kivu, Ituri and South Kivu since Aug. 1 of last year ...
A historic mining agreement was signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to exploit 3Ts minerals (tantalum or coltan, tungsten, and tin) in the Kivu region. UAE's Primera Mining pledges a generous investment of nearly $2 billion to kickstart the project, with the signing ceremony …