In Focus: Congo's Bloody Coltan (Catalan Translation)

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/democratic-republic-congo-drc

Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006.

The war beginning in 1998 that pitted the armies of Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola against those of Uganda and Rwanda induced the largest humanitarian disaster since World War II, with an estimated four million Congolese lives lost. Congo's first national elections since 1965 have taken place, but true peace and democracy remain elusive goals.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)" (http://bit.ly/v9W7YA) by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Pulitzer Center
• Bloody Coltan
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Wolframite
• DRC
• Congo
• Mai Mai
• Coltan Mine
• Cell Phone
• Mineral
• Conflict
• Resource War
• War in the Congo
• Congo Conflicts

[PATRICELUMUMBAS]

viva congo

[xocoholic]

Això és mentira.... el coltan que surt del congo representa només un 1% del consum mundial... hi han altres minerals més interessants per al conflicte: diamants, or, coure, cobalt...

[ReliableInsider]

Fareed Zakaria is fantastic. I'm amazed he's even allowed on television. It almost begins to give you hope.