DRC: EU Companies Fueling Minerals Smuggling in DRC

Apr 28, 2025 | Ronald Musoke
Independent
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All actors in the supply chain of illicit mineral exports, from operators of the mines to end product users, need to be held accountable for sustaining the bloodbath in the conflict-riven eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). That is the position of Bwesigye Don Binyina, the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy and Mineral Policy (ACEMP), a Kampala-based extractive industries policy, research and advocacy think tank.