Congolese ruler Tshisekedi who has failed all his tactics meant to put his governance failure on Rwanda claimed that the world’s giant tech firm, Apple, buys “blood minerals from Rwanda”.
The incompetent ruler who thinks that blaming games will solve the problems in his country claimed that “In every Apple phone, there is the blood of Congolese victims” citing that Apple buys Congolese blood minerals from Rwanda while does not possess valuable minerals of 3T (Tin, Tungsten, Tantalum) his baseless claims always meant to deflect attention onto Rwanda to avoid accountability for his governance failures.
Surprisingly he thinks that God put Minerals in DRC and stopped at Rwanda’s borders. Rwanda too has its minerals!
The truth is that all Congo coltan mines have always been exploited by armed groups allied to Tshisekedi, If his allies sell their minerals to a third party, why doesn’t he arrest or blame his allies?
Tshisekedi’s claim in the international newspapers that Rwanda has not even one gram of 3T kind of minerals (Tin, Tungsten, and Tantalum) is a pure lie, that he should be ashamed of because Rwanda is one of the world’s largest producers of tin, tantalum, and tungsten (3Ts), Southern districts (Huye, Rusizi, Gisagara) where many mineral sites are located.
Since 2008, Rwanda has implemented a traceability program ensuring chain of custody for 100% 3T minerals, from mine to market, Tshisekedi’s accusation is irrational. Rwanda is a member state of the ICGLR Mineral Tracking and Certification Scheme whose aim is to provide for sustainable conflict-free mineral chains in and between Member States. Rwanda’s minerals are certified and comply with international standards.
President Kagame Rwanda has in 2023 during the press conference dismissed the false narrative by saying that” Rwanda has a lot of coltans, and it is of much higher quality than you would find coltan anywhere, including in DRC, Rwanda also has gold which is even on the surface.” He added that the purity of Rwanda’s coltan is about 60% while DRC’s is about 20-30%.
The false and old song of Tshisekedi and his regime accusing Rwanda of invading Congo to steal minerals are looking for excuses to run away from their problems. The real plunderers of Congolese minerals are well known but DRC pretends to be unaware of them.
Tshisekedi by accusing the giant tech firm Apple of using the blood minerals exploited from DRC via Rwanda, Tshisekedi ignored the facts that, since 2012 Tech giant countries such as Apple, stopped procuring minerals coming from conflict countries including DRC.
Another fact is that among the contracted mining companies in DRC where most of them are Chinese companies, no name of the Rwandan company is on the list. Looking at how Tshisekedi and his regime have been claiming that Rwanda has no minerals, one would think that DRC is the only country with mineral resources in the region.
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