Jean-Christian Ndoki, SJ Benjamin Kataliko and Benjamin Kambale, students from Collège Boboto, a Jesuit high school in Kinshasa, DR Congo (DRC), won first place in a national poster contest on nature and the environment. Under the supervision of a school professor, Mr Dénis Nzeza, they designed a poster on plastic waste that showed not...
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Christian N Ndoki, SJ In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the paradox of water abundance and scarcity is felt by this city of 10 million inhabitants along the Congo River. I was visiting a young friend whose leg was amputated after a serious accident. While I was trying...
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Kwinja Nako Muhaya It has been a few months since members of civil society met to look into the responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict and high-risk zones, commonly known as “conflict minerals.” A first pulse was launched on 13 March 2013 in the Belgian Senate on a seminar entitled “Towards an initiative of...
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Alicia Alemán Arrastio The phenomenon of artisanal mining in Katanga, in the southern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shows the impact of international economic growth of the last three decades on traditionally mining countries and regions like Katanga. Artisanal mining refers to the activity characterized by the use of extraction techniques...
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El profesor Ferdinand Muhigirwa, SJ fue entrevistado por Ecojesuit en minerales de conflicto en la República Democrática de Congo (RDC). El profesor Muhigirwa es actualmente el Director general del Centro de investigación Arrupe y Centro de formación en Lubumbashi, RDC. ¿Puede explicarnos qué se entiende cuando hablamos de “minerales de conflicto”? “Minerales del conflicto”...
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