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‘ISS Today: The DRC’s natural resources still awash with blood’, by Nelson Alusala in the Daily Maverick, 24.07.2017

GovInn’s Senior Researcher Nelson Alusala published ‘ISS Today: The DRC’s natural resources still awash with blood‘ in the Daily Maverick.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mining communities mostly depend on their ability to sell what they mine to make a living. So they explore all options to reach markets – and in this game, the price dictates the source. Mining-trade middlemen in Goma, interviewed by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), say minerals sourced from non-compliant mines cost one and a half times less to buy than conflict-free-certified minerals. They therefore prefer to buy the former, eschewing regulatory measures such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).

Read the full article here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-07-24-iss-today-the-drcs-natural-resources-still-awash-with-blood

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