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🇨🇩 Roads, Loads, and Nodes: DRC's Cobalt Family Affair A major investigation by Africa Intelligence has sent political shockwaves through the DRC. The recent report reveals what it calls the dangerous connections of the Tshisekedi clan with the looting cartels. For those who doesn't have €2,000 for subscription who doesn't have time to read the full text,here are the main claims of the report: 👉 The story began unfolding when a delegation from Kinshasa composed of senior officers and government inspectors was denied access to one of the mining sites owned by Kazakh Eurasian Resource Group in Lualaba Province earlier this year. 👁 The mine, officially suspended since 2023, was found to be operational under the protection of armed units from the presidential Republican Guard. 📑 The internal ERG report identified networks of Lebanese and Chinese operators deeply embedded in the illegal trade in relation to ERG's suspended assets. 🤝 President Tshisekedi’s brothers, Christian Tshisekedi and Thierry Tshisekedi have allegedly tried to act as mediators between illegal mining cartels and ERG. Tshisekedi made a visit on September 10 to Kazakhstan to engage directly with President Tokayev and ERG leadership, possibly trying to cover up the affair that could tarnish the reformist self-positioning of his government. Devils Below