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🇨🇩 DRC: Prohibition to Break the Law 🌐 The DRC has officially extended its ban on selling minerals from territories it does not control. 🔸 The order of the Ministry of Mining, published on Sunday, November 16, states the extension of the ban on the extraction and export of minerals (mainly coltan, cassiterite and wolframite) from about 40 artel deposits in Masisi territory in North Kivu and Kalehe territory in South Kivu. 🔸 Both provinces are partially controlled by the AFC/M23 group at the moment, but, more importantly, local artisanal miners, even outside the territories controlled by the insurgents, most likely sell their products at points in Goma and Bukavu, where AFC/M23 will already take its share of profits. ⏩It is clear that despite all the prohibitions, these minerals will eventually end up in Rwanda, where they will be proudly labeled and shipped to factories in Europe and the United States. Rwanda has long ceased to be ashamed of its outstanding success in the mining industry and proudly demonstrates a significant excess of coltan exports over local production levels (see above). Has anything changed with the signing of this piece of paper? No, nothing - it's just that now the DRC will be able to continue to legally demand from European officials who have the same tantalum in their phones, extracted by the the Congolese in the East, a more responsible purchase of minerals from Rwanda. Devils Below