Kilo-Moto gold fields
Corporations
Congo
[Zani, DRC]
Owner: Mwana Africa
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Consider
Mwana Africa, a South African firm that controls the Kilo-Moto gold fields in
Zani, DRC. The Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), led by Thomas Lubanga,
occupied the Zani gold fields in 2002 and stirred up ethnic animosities that
led to massive suffering and depopulation. However, according to Congolese
locals, it was the white missionaries from the Africa Inland Mission
(
www.aimint.org/usa/where_we_work
) that deeply divided local ethnic groups.
French tycoons Jacques and Alvaro Hachuel own Mwana Africa.
Mwana Africa’s
European director, Etienne Denis, began his long career of impoverishing the
Congo at Umicore, formerly the Belgian mining giant Union Miniere, in 1974.
The Mwana Africa airstrip at Zani, and nearby roads, were built with USAID
backing, and the gold is flown out to Tanzania—one of the most
underappreciated criminal players funneling weapons to Uganda and Congo—or
sometimes shipped out by road through Uganda.[19] Mwana Africa is also
involved in Congo’s bloody MIBA diamond concessions in Mbuji Mayi and the
cobalt/copper concessions in Katanga. [20]
[2008
Dec]
Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa.
White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys
by Keith Harmon Snow