{"id":2290,"date":"2022-03-01T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2022-03-01T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:57:33","slug":"chinese-firm-stripped-of-control-of-congo-cobalt-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2290\/chinese-firm-stripped-of-control-of-congo-cobalt-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm stripped of control of Congo cobalt mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".l3ylpky4y.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-621d9ec1980bea49f4b7a894.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">A court in the Democratic Republic of <a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?s=congo\">Congo<\/a> has temporarily removed control of a huge copper and cobalt mine from its Chinese owners.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".l3ylpky4y.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-621d9ec1980bea49f4b7a894.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">The ruling in favour of the Congolese state mining firm, Gecamines, is part of a dispute in which the government says it is owed billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".l3ylpky4y.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-621d9ec1980bea49f4b7a894.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">It accuses China Molybdenum, the firm that has owned the Tenke Fungurume mine for the past six years, of understating its reserves.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".l3ylpky4y.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-621d9ec1980bea49f4b7a894.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">The Chinese company has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".l3ylpky4y.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-621d9ec1980bea49f4b7a894.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">The mine is one of the world&#8217;s largest sources of cobalt, which is a vital component in batteries for electric cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has temporarily removed control of a huge copper and cobalt mine from its Chinese owners. The ruling in favour of the Congolese state mining firm, Gecamines, is part of a dispute in which the government says it is owed billions of dollars. It accuses China Molybdenum, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[414,72,415],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-central-africa","tag-china-molybdenum","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-gecamines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}