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Vol 66 No 20

Published 10th October 2025


Congo-Kinshasa

First family politics and foreign suitors cast shadow over mining industry

Kinshasa gets tough on cobalt quotas and mining leases under industry veteran and new mines minister Watum Kabamba

Congo-Kinshasa’s new Minister of Mines of Louis Watum Kabamba has inherited an ever more complex web of mining and trading relationships in a country that produces over 70% of the world’s cobalt and is trying to boost export prices and national revenues.

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