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More than half of artisanal gold diggers work on mining sites where illegal armed groups or the Congolese military is regularly present.
More than half of artisanal gold diggers work on mining sites where illegal armed groups or the Congolese military is regularly present. Gold is “by far the mineral most used to finance armed elements and criminal networks,” UN experts said in December. These miners work at a mine in Ngweshe, South Kivu.
Credit: Kira Zalan