Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion
Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion
news.mongabay.com Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — At 4 a.m. on April 27, soldiers shattered the peace of a village in a mining region the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lualaba province. According to local civil society platform CASMIA, the soldiers fired shots and arrested several residents, including wom...
- In late April, security forces fired live ammunition to disperse protesters near a mine in the DRC province of Lualaba.
- The protesters were demanding compensation from the mine’s owner, Kamoa, as part of a stalled resettlement process.
- The company says the delay is because the number of people claiming to have been displaced by its operations has ballooned.
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