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Belgian-based Groupe George Forrest has energetically rejected reports by a United Nations panel of experts and international human rights groups criticising its mining operations in Congo-Kinshasa as exploitative and linking them to the conflict there. A coalition of European and Congolese corporate monitoring groups is to send a dossier on George Forrest's Congo-K operations to Belgium's Trade and Industry Ministry, claiming the company breaches the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) code of conduct....

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Congo-Kinshasa, Tanzania, Jean-Claude van Cauwenberghe, Jean-Claude Marcourt, Laurette Onkelinckx, Dirk van der Maelen, Isabelle Durant, Burundi, United States, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, Forces Nationales de Libération, Pax Christi, Fabrique Nationale de Herstal