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Amnesty International and the Congolese rights organization IBGDH relayed in a 98-page study that populations in and around Kolwezi, a mining town in the southeast of the DRC, had been forcefully relocated or forced into leaving their homes to make room for mine expansions. | Pulse Nigeria
Instead of benefiting from the growth of the mining sector, people living in the Kolwezi region "are being forced to leave their homes and farmland to make way for the expansion of large-scale industrial mining projects", according to the report.