That the RPA directly controlled a number of coltan mining sites in North and SouthKivu provinces in eastern DRC and made use of forced civilian labour to extract coltan in a number of these mines, including mining sites in Osso collectivity, Masisi territory, NorthKivu. Children as young as 12 were reportedly being forced to work in the mines, and civilians were illtreated by RPA ...
· »Mit Diamanten verdienen wir vielleicht 200 000 Dollar im Monat«, prahlte Kigalis Marionette im Ostkongo, der frühere RCDGomaChef Adolphe Onusumba, »doch Coltan .
· Kongo:Krieg um Rohstoffe. Die Demokratische Republik Kongo, in der einer der erbittertsten Konflikte der Welt tobt, ist ein reiches Land. Es gibt Öl und Diamanten .
It was controlled by the RCDGoma militarised units that were fighting against the central government sitting in Kinshasa. The Rwanda army headquarters was coordinating the operations of these units. Thus, via this simple method, Rwanda had established control over the region where big coltan deposits were discovered. The market demand for tantalum production was at its height at that point ...
· As two housewives explained, "Coltan mining is very profitable, but only the husbands profit from it. Once they have the money, they go away and look for other women in Goma .
Rebel groups MLC, RCDGoma, and RCDML made their own deals with foreign businessmen for cash and/or military equipment. ... That said, the negative consequences of some forms of resource extraction, such as coltan mining, are devastating. For example, as worldwide demand for goods has increased, so has the demand for tantalum, or coltan (DCA 2006) and reportedly, "much of the finance ...
Goma, January 2002. 4/21 Introduction and Main Findings The study found that: • as crisis and war in North Kivu have severely hampered industrial mining, existing industrial mining concessions have been turned over to informal or artisanal mining, mainly of coltan. This phenomenon has led to a population exodus of all age groups with the aim of finding coltan; • as a result, agricultural ...
Rcd Goma Coltan Mining Coltan mining in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. Photo Terese and John Hart, Wildlife Conservation Society Coltan Mining in World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo Updated Summary 23 April 2001 IUCN The World Conservation Union appeals to the international community to stop ... zone controlled by the Rwandans and the RCDGoma ...
Rebel groups MLC, RCDGoma, ... "Coltan Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How tantalumusing industries can commit to the reconstruction of the DRC". Fauna Flora International. Cambridge, UK.: Fauna Flora International. ↑ Klare, MT (2011). "Public Health Impliions of Resource Wars". American Journal of Public Health. Washington, DC. 101 (9): 1615–1619. doi:/ajph ...
· coltan mining company in the Great Lakes, namely SOMIGIL. Within a few months it was able to resell 236 tonnes for million, a deal from which only the RCDGoma profited. Deprived of revenues, former exporters scrambled to attract global public interest, playing on concerns over the fate of the gorillas of the Kivus. Coltan was not the only resource in play. Gold, diamonds, timber and ...
Controlling the coltan trade: the RCDGoma's SOMIGL monopoly Case 1 Cogecom: the rebels' key Belgian business partner Case 2 Umicore subsidiary Sogem: a Belgian transnational corporation keeping at a safe distance from the RCDGoma? The 'Fédération des Entreprises du Congo' : resistance and power sharing Case 3 Masingiro : a German contribution to the war in the DRC Part 2 ...
· The RCD believes it will do far better by opening up the market as there's a lot of demand for coltan, which is selling at up to 200 per kilo in Goma. The demand comes mainly from Germany, RCD's spokesman, Tryphon Kin Kiey Mulumba, was quoted by the Berlin daily Tageszeitung (TAZ) as saying. The paper carried a long report on coltan in its April 4 issue, but Africa Mining Intelligence .
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· On 31 December 2000, RCDGoma and its allies launched an attack on the area controlled by RCDML and captured Kandole, an area rich in diamonds and with some coltan. Also late in December 2000 ...
· The RCD was interested in doing business with Mr. Albers because he was the largest coltan trader in Goma at the time and he had virtually unlimited access to the Rwandan export market, which meant money for the rebel administration's war expenses. The RCD moved their illegallymined coltan from the Congo through his business networks to refine and export the ore while laundering .
· The area of KBNP in which coltan mining is destroying wildlife and habitat is not in the hands of Rwanda's army or their allies the RCDGoma. It .
· This allowed the rebels of RCD Goma to buy and transport the arms they needed for their occupation of Kivu. 2 'Report of group of experts on the illegal exploitation of natural reserves and other wealth of the Democratic Republic of Congo', letter of 12 April 2001, addressed to the UN Security Council by the Secretary General, followed by letter of November 2001 and by the third report ...
The price of coltan has since crashed, but Walikale is now in the flush of a new mining boom for cassiterite, the base element of tin. A global shortage of tin ramped world prices to near 15 year highs of 9,600 a ton in May, up from 6,500 a ton in January. And as with coltan during the war, the sudden price rise has fueled power struggles in the bush, where gold and diamonds are also mined ...
· Mineral Exports by RCDGoma in 2000 June 6, 2001 The following is a summary of gold, colombotantalite (coltan) and diamond exports in 2000 from territory controlled by the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie(RCDGoma) rebels in Eastern Congo. These figures were obtained from the RCD Department des Terres, Mines et Énergie in Goma ...
RCDGoma Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratieGoma, Congolese Rally for DemocracyGoma, backed by the Rwandese government and led by Adolphe Onusumba Yamba. RCDML or RCD K/ML Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratieMouvement de libération, Congolese Rally for DemocracyLiberation Movement, also known as
RCDGoma has designed a fiscal system based mainly on the mining sector. About six different forms of tax exist in this sector, and they are applied on approximately eight different types of minerals, including the most important (coltan, gold and diamonds). From RCD official statistics one can see that in 1999 on average 60 kg of gold was extracted every month from the area controlled by RCD ...
About Bisunzu Mining Company. SMB is an exploration and mining company with the largest deposits of Coltan in Africa. By fully exploiting the benefits and potential of its coltan reserves, SMB has the ambition to become one of the largest producers in the world. A national coltan .
by the RCD in November 2000, in the RCD Gomacontrolled areas the local coltan trade was almost entirely dominated by the RPA forces. Even though the RCD had pointed out a multitude of taxes to be applied on mining products, most of this generated income was paid directly to the Congo Desk of the Rwandan Department of External Relations. At the same time, two Rwandan companies (Rwanda .
zone controlled by the Rwandans and the RCDGoma and rich in coltan, only 2 out of 350 elephant families remained in 2000. There is serious concern..that the rest fled of their own accord or were killed, as two tons of elephant tusks were traced in the Bukavu area in late 2000." The poaching of elephants for ivory seems to be a highly organised operation. The Panel was not able to look into ...
The RCD was interested in doing business with Mr. Albers because he was the largest coltan trader in Goma at the time and he had virtually unlimited access to the Rwandan export market, which meant money for the rebel administration's war expenses. The RCD moved their illegallymined coltan from the Congo through his business networks to refine and export the ore while laundering the profits ...