DRC | Economic Justice
Police clash with DR Congo miners
BBC news 7/3/2008
Hundreds of miners have clashed with police in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province. At least one miner was reportedly shot dead and 30 others injured as police tried to evict them from an old quarry. The miners were digging for copper and cobalt ore in a quarry belonging to the state mining company, Gecamines. Thousands of casual miners are afraid of losing their livelihoods as the government seeks to sell mining concessions to foreign investors. Police started evicting the miners from the quarry in Kamatanda - near the country's border with Zambia - on Thursday ... Gecamines went bankrupt in 1990, and its mines have since been invaded by thousands of self-employed diggers and artisanal miners ...
BBC news 7/3/2008
Hundreds of miners have clashed with police in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich Katanga province. At least one miner was reportedly shot dead and 30 others injured as police tried to evict them from an old quarry. The miners were digging for copper and cobalt ore in a quarry belonging to the state mining company, Gecamines. Thousands of casual miners are afraid of losing their livelihoods as the government seeks to sell mining concessions to foreign investors. Police started evicting the miners from the quarry in Kamatanda - near the country's border with Zambia - on Thursday ... Gecamines went bankrupt in 1990, and its mines have since been invaded by thousands of self-employed diggers and artisanal miners ...
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