️🇱🇧🇨🇩 Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied reports that Foreign Minister Youssef Raji prevented the Lebanese ambassador from monitoring the arrest of Lebanese citizens in the Kolwezi mining area of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The ministry said that Raji instructed Ambassador Haitham Ibrahim to follow immediately after learning about the case. The embassy is working with Congolese authorities to confirm where the detainees are being held, obtain a full list of names and clarify their legal status.
The ministry stated that preliminary information indicates that the arrests were part of a campaign to regulate work at mining sites and that many of the detainees kept their seven-day visas.