Finding Ways To Stop Congo's Conflict Minerals

Clean Them Up: Congo's Conflict Minerals -- The Economist

American lawmakers want to break the link between laptops and war.

MANY of the rebel groups still fighting across swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo get their cash from rocks. Apart from gold, they illicitly sell cassiterite (used in laptops), coltan (mobile phones) and wolframite (light bulbs). Hundreds of the mines containing such treasures, especially in the country’s troubled east, where conflict has long been fiercest, are targets in turf warfare. Reducing the illicit trade will not bring peace, but it may help.

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