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2023-05-11 Africa Subsaharan

SADC to send troops to restore peace in Eastern DRC

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Posted by Fred 2023-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top
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#1 Awaiting articles on Shinkelobwe and other 'closed' mines in southern Congo. Chinese must be all over the place. Last good article, Scientific American, 3/27/2009: Shinkolobwe is now considered an official nonplace. The provincial governor had ordered a squad of soldiers to evacuate the village and burn down all the huts in 2004, leaving nothing behind but stumps and garbage. A detachment of Army personnel was left behind to guard the edges and make sure nobody entered. The government had been embarrassed by a series of accidental deaths inside the mine. Some men were digging inside a jerry-built tunnel when it collapsed on them. Eight were killed, and thirteen injured.
Fatal accidents are all too common in the illegal mining trade of the Congo. Abandoned mines like this one are scattered all over the southern savanna and most of them are still being picked over by local farmers hoping to boost their income by selling a few bags of minerals on the side, usually copper and a smattering of cobalt. Shinkolobwe was different. This was the pit which, in the 1940s, had yielded most of the uranium for the atomic bombs the United States had dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...

But it was more than historical curiosity. The pit had been clo

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-11 07:21|| 2023-05-11 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 When have troops ever restored peace?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-11 07:58|| 2023-05-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

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