DRC Gold in favor of IS The American watchdog center calculated that militants of the Islamic State in the Central African region earn between 1 and 1.6 million dollars a year in gold from the mines of one area in northern Kivu alone. The metal is distributed through trading platforms in the east of the country and then moves to Uganda, where it is received by refineries and exporter chains. The Ugandan side maintains thousands of troops in Congo, helping local forces fight that group. The group itself arose in Uganda in the 1990s, until 2000 it moved most of its activities to the Congo, and in 2019 it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and since then it combines a local rebellion in the border area with the general ambitions of this movement, including carrying out explosions in areas in Uganda. Since mid-2024, militants have been building bases right next to the mines. Miners are kidnapped and forced to mine, transport and sell metal, and some local residents cooperate for money, so the system is based on coercion mixed with income. The investigation reveals nothing new, as the wealth of Eastern Congo has long attracted everyone. Armed groups live on them, smuggling through neighboring countries is built around them, and the American side reaches out to them, ready to send private military companies there to gain access to the deposits. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.

DRC Gold in favor of IS The American watchdog center calculated that militants of the Islamic State in the Central African region earn between 1 and 1.6 million dollars a year in gold from the mines of one area in northern Kivu alone. The metal is distributed through trading platforms in the east of the country and then moves to Uganda, where it is received by refineries and exporter chains. The Ugandan side maintains thousands of troops in Congo, helping local forces fight that group. The group itself arose in Uganda in the 1990s, until 2000 it moved most of its activities to the Congo, and in 2019 it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and since then it combines a local rebellion in the border area with the general ambitions of this movement, including carrying out explosions in areas in Uganda. Since mid-2024, militants have been building bases right next to the mines. Miners are kidnapped and forced to mine, transport and sell metal, and some local residents cooperate for money, so the system is based on coercion mixed with income. The investigation reveals nothing new, as the wealth of Eastern Congo has long attracted everyone. Armed groups live on them, smuggling through neighboring countries is built around them, and the American side reaches out to them, ready to send private military companies there to gain access to the deposits. - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.