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Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu. Photo by Tom Stoddart via Getty Images

What coltan mining in the DRC costs people and the environment

Oluwole Ojewale, Institute for Security Studies

Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
Le ministre israélien de la Défense, Benny Gantz, serre la main du ministre marocain des Affaires étrangères, Nasser Bourita, à Rabat, le 24 novembre 2021, jour de la signature d’un accord de coopération sécuritaire entre les deux pays. Fadel Senna/AFP

Ce que change l’accord de coopération sécuritaire entre le Maroc et Israël

Abdelkader Abderrahmane, Institute for Security Studies

Cet accord, qui renforce le Maroc face à l’Algérie, a fait naître quelques inquiétudes dans plusieurs pays d’Europe.

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