Source: Global Witness
Congo: Regime Cash Machine – Global Witness
Published on Jul 20, 2017
How the Democratic Republic of Congo’s booming mining exports are failing to benefit its people.
More than $750 million of mining revenues paid by companies to state bodies in the Democratic Republic of Congo was lost to the treasury between 2013 and 2015. Instead, the money disappeared into a dysfunctional state-owned mining company and opaque national tax agencies.