The US imposed sanctions on Gertler in 2017 and 2018, accusing him of leveraging his friendship with former DRC president Joseph Kabila to secure lucrative mining deals.
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The global race to secure minerals critical to the clean energy transition is driving toxic pollution with severe health repercussions for communities living near some of the world’s largest cobalt and copper mines, a new report says. U.K. corporate watchdog Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) and African Resources Watch (AFREWATCH), based in the Democratic […]