Miners Brave Congo’s Warlord History as Demand for Tin Soars
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As his chartered Cessna flies above the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga province, Mussadiq Hamid Merican flips through the pages of his Malaysian passport, counting Congolese visas.
“Nine, 10, 11,” he laughs, while the plane passes over villages of thatched-roof huts scattered across sparsely forested savannah. “And these are multiple entry visas so it’s actually more than that.”