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Who buys Rwanda’s smuggled coltan? The global journey of conflict coltan from DRC to the world’s electronics

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Who buys Rwanda’s smuggled coltan? The global journey of conflict coltan from DRC to the world’s electronics

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M23 soldiers at the mining pits in Rubaya
M23 soldiers at the mining pits in Rubaya. Camille Laffont / AFP / Getty ImagesConflict coltan smuggled from the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is finding its way into global markets and popular consumer products, despite due diligence systems

Where have over 2,000 tonnes of smuggled conflict coltan gone?

These looted minerals come from mines in Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which produce 15% of the world’s tantalum, a key ingredient for electronic products found in smartphones, laptops and cars around the world.

The Rubaya mines have become a main revenue source for M23’s brutal warfare in DRC. Seizing vast areas of territory, the armed group backed by Rwanda’s military has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, abducting and torturing with impunity.

But once the coltan is smuggled to Rwanda, little is known about who buys it or where it goes.

In a year-long investigation, Global Witness followed the DRC’s conflict coltan from the mines across the border and into global supply chains. We established the complicity of Rwandan officials, as smuggling reached “unprecedented” levels.

With Rwanda’s coltan exports more than doubling over the past three years, we identified the seven companies that exported 85% of the coltan.

Through interviews with coltan smugglers, we found that at least five of these seven companies buy conflict coltan from DRC, selling it on through middlemen to smelters in China and Kazakhstan.

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https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/transition-minerals/who-buys-rwandas-smuggled-coltan-the-global-journey-of-conflict-coltan-from-drc-to-the-worlds-electronics/

Does Your EV Drive on Terrorism?

Does Your EV Drive on Terrorism?

by PD Lawton          6 June 2026

Part 5 of the Nigeria series

Part 1 : Boko Haram: a Golden Commercial Venture by PD Lawton

Part 2 :London Uses Nigeria and Ghana to Attack the AES and BRICS by PD Lawton

Part 3: Islamic Extremism, Religious Intolerance, Territorial disputes and Ethnic Conflict fuelling Genocide in Northern Nigeria by PD Lawton

Part 4 : The Islamic Terrorism Christian Genocide Ruse by Black Pearl

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One week, three videos. You share widely. You say : Look ! Nigeria is turning into Eastern Congo!

No response. World stays deaf dumb and blind. It is Africa. They are always killing each other. It is not our problem. Anyway, ( they would say to you) your subject matter won’t fit the algorithms, Africa is just not topical.

Video One got me. It is a video of the pattern of Africa. It is Eastern Congo revisited, this time in Nigeria.

image: massacre in Djugu, Ituri  Province, Eastern Congo

On the 29 May 2026 a village in Kogi State, Nigeria was attacked. The images are the same as the ones from the DRC. Men, women, children sliced up by machete. Only, they weren’t all dead. One survivor , a baby crying still strapped to his mother`s back.

image: Kogi State massacre

It is just like the photo after one of Paul Kagame`s RPF massacres on a refugee camp in North Kivu, DRC. Bodies strewn, dead, hacked about. One survivor. A toddler crying by his dead mother.

Will President Tinubu be made Man of the Year by The Times? Will Tinubu undergo PR re-imaging as was Paul Kagame so the International Mineral Mafia can lick his feet?

image: Presidents Macron and Tinubu shake hands on the looting of Nigerian mineral wealth

image: Prime Minister Blair and President Kagame shake hands on the looting of Congolese mineral wealth

Video Two: Evidence, irrefutable evidence of crime and corruption. The International Mineral Mafia at work.

The Turks star in this video but it could just as easily be the Americans, the British, the Israelis, the EUropeans and God forbid for the BRICS lovers, the Russians or the Chinese.

The video shows Fulani herdsmen loading sacks of minerals, Lithium for the EV, into a Turkish helicopter. The Fulani herdsmen and I call them by that full name because that is part of the Theatre, the Mineral Mafia`s Theatre of the Absurd. Nigerien military are present in this video. What is General Tiani of Niger up to? Is it uranium in the sacks?

It’s like the video footage from DRC showing M23-RPF terrorists marching in file past the UN Casque Bleu contingent while they picnic under a tree, turning a blind eye. Or the UN helicopters dropping boxes of `stuff` behind M23-RPF lines. Or the Rwandan regular army marching through Bukavu and the world`s media call them M23, protectors of the Congolese Tutsi , and the coltan mines of Rubaya.

image: M23 `rebels` aka Rwandan Defence Force. Photo by Alexis Huguet / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)

Video Three is a ground shaker only it will disappear under the bridge and into the sea of information, mostly misinformation. It is a sort of repeat of the DDR Program (Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration) run by MONUSCO, which is the International Minerals Mafia`s charade of peacekeeping in Eastern Congo. The pre April 1994 Rwandan military ( FDLR – formerly FAR ( Force Armees Rwandais ) were subjected to laying down their weapons and being returned to Rwanda. That itself was a charade because no FDLR fighter would be so stupid as to return willingly to Paul Kagame`s Rwanda. So the International Mineral Mafia told Paul Kagame to create a new FDLR which he did by emptying Rwandan prisons and ordering the conscripts to go terrorize Kinyarwandan speaking ( mostly Tutsi) civilians in eastern Congo so that Rwanda would have justification for invading DRC.

Video Three transcript of a presentation given at a recent peace conference in Abuja: IT IS SHOCKING

“The Boko Haram are being rehabilitated. Now what do they do after being rehabilitated ? They fill forms that ask questions:  How many people have you killed? So if you kill 50 you have your own class. 50 and above 20 [ another class]and  [ another class for those that say} I have never killed.  So if you have never killed maybe you stay there one month and go off. If you kill small number, 2 month [ of rehabilitation classes] . If you kill many : 6 month.

Which type of ammunition that you use? Then that is the people that they are going to pay them a pay off. A pay off of 3 million. And a monthly salary of 50 000 . I’m saying this. It should be shocking. I’m revealing this .

After having been rehabilitated, what happens next? If you cannot live without a gun? The government will provide gun for you. As a civilian JTF [ Joint Task Force], you all know that they are here in Abuja.  Most of them are repented Boko Haram. Some of them that cannot stay in the society , they are being exported to Algeria to go and attack the miners. To go and do illegal mining, gold mining in Algeria and be paid.  If they sustain gunshot they are going to be transported back to Maiduguri and treated in the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital through the Government of Borno State. The repented IDPs , repented Boko Harams and also the civilian JTF go to Zamfara. They are there. The Government of Zamfara is paying them 70 000 . The Government is paying 70 000 to the Borno State Government . The Borno State Government is paying them 50 000.

Meaning it is a job. It is a business. It is not a crime to start a business. If the business is being recognized by our government. `The business that I am craving for is to start my terrorism`.

[Me], I am not going to terrorize anybody. I am going to fight back. It has been so painful that the killer of my Dad is being paid with taxpayers’ money. The abductors of our wives, our children, our sisters are being paid off by the taxpayers’ money.  They drive luxury car with escort. There is one man that slaughtered 96 people a day.  Now he is driving a Hilux. His name is Adam Rugurugu. I am saying this, I don’t care. I don’t care, I am ready to die . I’m ready to die because what is life? “

End of transcript

 

CONGO EMERGENCY: THE PART OF THE STORY THEY ARE HIDING

excellent, comprehensive analysis

Source: Frontline Africa

CONGO EMERGENCY: THE PART OF THE STORY THEY ARE HIDING

20 May 2026

On May 17, the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Western media is treating this as a health story. On Frontline Africa, we will not. This is the 17th Ebola outbreak in Congo since 1976. The epicenter is Mongbwalu, a gold mining town in Ituri province — one of the most heavily militarized, mineral-rich, donor-dependent regions on the entire African continent.

The Bundibugyo strain that is now spreading has no approved vaccine. The DRC’s surveillance network failed to detect it for 4 weeks. Four health workers died before the alarm was raised. Cases have now reached Kinshasa, Goma (under M23 control), and Kampala. In this episode, we walk through the verified facts, the geopolitical context the western press is leaving out, the structural reasons why eastern Congo keeps becoming ground zero for these outbreaks, the link to the Trump minerals deal of December 2025, the Rwanda border closure, Uganda’s response, and the rumours that ordinary Congolese have circulated about why this keeps happening to their country. We centre Africa in global affairs with analysis, not emotion.

How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi

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How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi

Only the Tutsi genocide was broadcast around the world and later depicted in the Hollywood movie “Hotel Rwanda.”
  • Ann Garrison

On October 1, 1990, Ugandan troops invaded Rwanda from Uganda. They wore Ugandan uniforms, drove Ugandan vehicles, and carried weapons from the Ugandan arsenal. They were led by top-ranking officers in the Ugandan military who had family roots in Rwanda and called themselves the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Led by then General, now President Paul Kagame, they were determined to seize power in Rwanda and re-establish the ethno-supremacist Tutsi rule that had ended with the Hutu Power Revolution of 1959.

They succeeded after waging a four-year war, with the help of the US, and though Rwanda pretends to have ended ethnic division and exclusion, a Wikileaks diplomatic cable reveals that all top government positions are in fact held by Tutsi, and Rwanda reconciliation is a lie. Only Tutsi are allowed to publicly mourn their family members who died in the 90-day massacres of 1994, and the description “genocide against the Tutsi” is legally codified and enforced. Anyone using any other description faces prison time in Rwanda.

The invasion violated international law and Rwanda’s sovereignty, but the world barely noticed. The UN Security Council declined to even discuss it, despite the request of Rwanda’s Ambassador to the UN. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had just become President of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)—which later became the African Union—and as such, he assumed the role of “mediator” even though he was the principal aggressor and, of course, had no interest in upholding international law.

How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi

In How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi, former Rwandan Ambassador to Paris Jean-Marie Ndagijimana writes, “Two months earlier, on 2 August, 1990, Iraq under Saddam Hussein invaded its little neighbor Kuwait, and the international community went to work to put out the oil pipeline fires in what is the world’s premier oil reserve. So we poor Negroes could kill one another in silence without bothering the masters of the world who were busy elsewhere.”

The ensuing four-year war included the RPF’s horrific massacres, including targeted massacres of Hutus, but it was still barely noticed by the international community until it finally concluded in the 90-day bloodbath that included both Tutsi and Hutu genocides. Only the Tutsi genocide was broadcast around the world and later depicted in the Hollywood movie “Hotel Rwanda.”

Millions of people saw “Hotel Rwanda,” and the Rwandan Genocide thus came to be understood ahistorically, as a sudden 90-day episode of mass psychosis and bloodlust in which the Hutu majority attempted to exterminate the Tutsi minority. Hutu people have been demonized not only in Rwanda but around the world ever since. For thirty years, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been allowed to wage a devastating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the grounds that he is hunting Hutus who were guilty of the genocide against the Tutsi and who still threaten Rwanda.

“Stopping the next Rwanda” became the battle cry of the humanitarian warriors led by Samantha Power, who built her career on “Bystanders to Genocide,” her crusading critique of the Clinton administration for failing to stop the genocide. She insisted that we must all from hereon be “upstanders,” not bystanders to genocide, most notably in Libya and Syria, but she hasn’t called for any upstanding to stop genocide in Gaza.

How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi is one of many important books that tell the far more complex story of both Hutu and Tutsi genocides that took place over four years in Rwanda and years after that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/paul-kagame

Bukavu under looting by the M23-RDF in Kadutu, Uvira secured by FARDC/WAZA

Source: Afro Infos 243

Stop Rwandan Aggression. Uvira: “We lived through a month of hell with the M23 rebels. Seeing our Governor, our FARDC soldiers, and Wazalendo today is a real relief,” rejoiced the residents of Uvira upon the arrival of Governor Jean Jacques Purusi

Bukavu under looting by the M23-RDF in Kadutu, Uvira secured by FARDC/WAZA

 

January 26, 2026: Bukavu Looted by the M23-RDF in Kadutu, Uvira Secured by FARDC/

WAZA BUKAVU Looted – This Sunday, January 25, 2026, Rwandan rebels from the M23, notorious auxiliaries of Rwanda, systematically looted the T.P. military camp in the Industrial Quarter, Kadutu commune, Bukavu city, South Kivu province.

URGENT: SITUATION IN UVIRA — ON-THE-SITE TESTIMONY A testimony gathered on the ground reveals the truth behind the houses vandalized by delinquents in #Uvira. According to the woman interviewed, Rwandan terrorists manipulated the city’s youth, inciting them to commit these destructive acts. This account highlights not only the external influence on the local population but also the need to remain vigilant to protect civilians and preserve peace in the region. North Kivu – Armed Incursion in Musenge North Kivu: On the night of January 24-25, 2026, an armed incursion took place in Musenge, in the Mwenye group (Lubero territory). This attack resulted in the deaths of two FARDC soldiers and caused material damage, including the burning of houses and community buildings. The situation has reignited concerns among residents already affected by a recent massacre in Mausa. Many displaced people encountered along the roads believe that the persistent insecurity is linked to the presence of armed groups between Butuhe and Nziapanda. Local leaders and civil society are calling on the authorities to take concrete measures to dismantle these armed groups in order to strengthen security and restore state authority to provide lasting protection for the population.

 

 

PD LAWTON – Boko Haram, Nigeria & South Africa’s Geopolitical Fault Lines

I discuss: Apartheid used as a political football by politicians. Farm murders. Real reason President Trump dislikes SA government. Mafia State – terrorism, drug trafficking, Illicit black-market economy running SA , Globalist policy of de-growth and de-industrialization. ANC government as liberation party can do no wrong! SA supports Palestine ICJ but ignores Congo, SA supportive of Rwanda who is the aggressor, SA BRICS role meaningless, ENGINEERED breakdown of THE STATE – UNDERMINING GOVERNMENT so PRIVATE SECTOR can assume full control – corporate fascism . HIGH SPEED RAILWAYS and infrastructure CANNOT be built in war zones . African governments stopped from stopping war,hindered from WAR against WARRING destabilization forces. UN`s role to PERPETUATE WARS. Those forces are employed digging gold/coltan/diamonds. MNC`s profit margin. Immigration and LIBYA – Haftar warned of this. SA as economic hub now powder keg due to immigrants.

Source on Rumble : Quantum Nurse Grace Asagra

https://rumble.com/v74ni2y-pd-lawton-boko-haram-nigeria-and-south-africas-geopolitical-fault-lines.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

THE WIND OF CHANGE : THE RWANDAN OPPOSITION COALITION IS LAUNCHED TODAY

WASHINGTON SHOULD SUPPORT ROC for peace and stability of the Great Lakes 

Padri Thomas NAHIMANA president of GREX , now renamed as Rwanda Opposition Coalition ROC

Source: THE HIGHEST MEDIA

THE WIND OF CHANGE : THE RWANDAN OPPOSITION COALITION IS LAUNCHED TODAY

18 Jan 2026

THE WIND OF CHANGE : THE RWANDAN OPPOSITION COALITION IS LAUNCHED TODAY. This channel is dedicated to the theoretical training of future political leaders of the African Great Lakes Region. She popularizes the principles of a non-violent revolution based on philosophy and theology liberation. She teaches the basics of law. It nourishes the legitimate STRUGGLE of the people for Peace, Economic evelopment and Social Justice. She cultivates the values of Courage and Consistancy as a necessary response to state terrorism raised into a system of government in Rwanda and in many other african countries. His specific Leitmotiv is: “CONNECT TO BUILD A NEW RWANDA”.