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CONGOLESE COLTAN Cohort A Team 7 Travis Reynolds | Dennis Maltais | Christina Kanjer | Michael Dinsmore | Amanda Berry “The only loser in this huge business venture is the Congolese people.” from The United Nations’ Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  • 1.CONGOLESECOLTAN
    The only loser in this huge business
    venture is the Congolese people.
    from The United Nations Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation
    of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Cohort A Team 7
    Travis Reynolds| Dennis Maltais| Christina Kanjer| Michael Dinsmore| Amanda Berry

2. The Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Abundant natural resources

Africas World War

  • 1996 - Following the Rwandan Genocide

3. 1998 Government forces against Ugandan and Rwandan backed rebels 4. 5.4 million people dead