Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion

Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion

LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — At 4 a.m. on April 27, soldiers shattered the peace of a village in a mining region the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lualaba province. According to local civil society platform CASMIA, the soldiers fired shots and arrested several residents, including women, in the village of Munjenje, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the provincial capital, Kolwezi. “First, the police intervened,” says Chadrack Mukad…