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Corruption
DRC: Mining multi-nationals get deal of the century
2008-07-18
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/corruption/49569
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There is potentially enormous mineral wealth in the DRC province of Katanga. In exchange, investors from all over the world, and especially China, are prepared to offer money and infrastructure to revive the DRC after 15 terrible years of war and invasion. The potential for ecological disaster, social exploitation and corruption is almost limitless.
Le Monde diplomatique
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July 2008 MINING MULTINATIONALS GET DEALS OF THE CENTURY
Copper colony in Congo
There is potentially enormous mineral wealth in the DRC province of Katanga. In exchange, investors from all over the world, and especially China, are prepared to offer money and infrastructure to revive the DRC after 15 terrible years of war and invasion.
The potential for ecological disaster, social exploitation and corruption is almost limitless.
by Colette Braeckman
Lubumbashi is the capital of Katanga, the southernmost state of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Day and night, huge trucks roar through its streets, making for the nearby Zambian border with cargoes of copper and cobalt on their way, via the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam, to Asia. Every month new stores open: fast food joints with American names, and shops where the locals stare in wonder at Chinese consumer goods, finally within their reach.
