Congo's Mineral Wealth Lures Exploiters - The Washington Times

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Date: 
Sep 8, 2009
Author: 
Gus Constantine

The Democratic Republic of the Congo holds a treasure trove of valuable minerals that are at once the country's greatest blessing and most enduring curse.

Second only to South Africa in mineral wealth, Congo has attracted rapacious exploiters from 19th-century Belgian colonialists to foreign-backed rebel groups. 

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