Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo have formed a joint team to investigate gold smuggling from eastern Congo, both nations said after a meeting of their presidents on Thursday.The rest of the report indicates that, despite stories of large seizures, little had changed. The trouble is, those "mafia" groups tend to be military or military-affiliated.
Three provinces in Congo's conflict-wracked east are subject to a mining ban imposed last year by President Joseph Kabila to weed out what he called the "mafia groups" controlling the mineral trade....
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Kenyan, DRC Governments To Form Joint Task Force Looking Into Gold Smuggling
As reported by Reuters Africa,
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