For 400 hot and dusty kilometers, a two-lane highway cuts through central Africa, its path lined with the carcasses of trucks, buses and minivans, but this modest road holds outsize value for global markets, connecting some of the continent’s richest mines to the rest of the world and, most notably, China.
Along the route, thousands of flatbed trucks haul sheets of copper and sacks of cobalt hydroxide, essential for electric vehicles and other 21st-century technologies. Their drivers must pay steep tolls as much as US$900 for a round trip.
For almost a decade, a cut of those tolls flowed to the
The largest leak yet of financial documents in Africa reveals how at least $138m of government funds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laundered to former president Joseph Kabila’s relatives and associates. At least $2.4m was used to purchase properties in Johannesburg. The largest.
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