#theguardian.com. The Guardian view on the scramble for critical minerals: while powers vie for access, labourers die | Editorial. Editorial: A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn’t helping
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#aljazeera.com. Survivor of deadly mine collapse in DR Congo recounts rescue. A Congolese miner told Al Jazeera he saw his friends around him die as the mine they were working in collapsed.
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#aljazeera.com. ‘I came back from the dead’: 21 hours underground after DRC mine collapse. In mineral-rich Rubaya, source of most of the world’s coltan, miners suffer poverty and dangerous working conditions.
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#bbc.com. Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after sanctions threat. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Angola have said they will cooperate on migrant returns.
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#aljazeera.com. ‘We are exploited’: Congolese fear losing out as US makes minerals deals. As officials meet in Washington to discuss critical minerals, many in DRC fear their country will gain little.
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#wikipedia.org. Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply Congo, is a country in Central Africa. By land area the country is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 110 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous Francophone country
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