News Democratic Republic Congo Haut-Katanga: Landslides kill 227 at Democratic Republic of Congo coltan mines at the centre of Washington’s struggle to control vital mineral resources
Published on: Monday 09 February 2026
News source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/09/jndz-f09.html
The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, Tesla, Samsung, Intel, Nokia, Motorola, Google, Microsoft, Dell, Sony and BMW--and the armed violence that secures their raw materials.
News Democratic Republic Congo Haut-Katanga: R&B star Akon enters Congo mining sector in JV with state company
Published on: Tuesday 05 January 2021
News source: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/index.php/showbiz/2001399307/rb-star-akon-enters-congo-mining-sector-in-jv-with-state-company
A company led by American-Senegalese R&B singer Akon has signed a deal to finance a copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic ... reserve in Haut Katanga province. Congo is Africa ...
News Democratic Republic Congo Haut-Katanga: Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945
Published on: Tuesday 01 February 2022
News source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-labor-and-working-class-history/article/abs/race-at-work-a-comparative-history-of-mining-labor-and-empire-on-the-central-african-copperbelt-and-the-fushun-coalfields-ca-19071945/B0B52AA343DCCF80388C803BA5481657
One on a high plateau stretched out across the border between what is now Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia with a sub-tropical ... almost entirely unmechanized when production began in Katanga ...
