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Congo’s copper-export route re-opened after 24 hour shutdown-2017 China(Guangzhou)Int’l Non-Ferrous Metal（Copper）Exhibition
9/13/2016 有色金属展-铜材展-non-ferrous metals expo |
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Bloomberg reported that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s border with Zambia, the main export route for the country’s copper, re-opened this morning after a 24-hour shutdown prompted by clashes between residents and security forces.
Mr Eric Monga, a spokesman for the Chamber of Mines in the southeastern Haut Katanga province, said that “Trucks have started to cross the border again this morning.”
According to government spokesman Mr Lambert Mende, the border was closed all day Friday after riots in the Congolese border town of Kasumbalesa left at least three dead. The violence, in which vehicles and government buildings were burned, started after a money changer was killed by criminals late.
Local residents clashed with security forces, protesting what they said was “a failure of the police to protect the population,” Mr Mende said by phone from the capital, Kinshasa, on Friday.
Congo is Africa’s biggest copper producer and the world’s largest source of cobalt, almost all of which is exported via the Kasumbalesa border post.
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