Congo Tin Exports Rebound Despite U.N., Campaigners - Reuters

BUKAVU, Congo, June 16 (Reuters) - Tin exports from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are back up despite the threat of United Nations sanctions and pressure from rights campaigners linking the trade to local conflicts, mining officials said.

Some mineral buyers in the eastern Kivu provinces halted purchases of the tin ore cassiterite in January after a U.N. report linked traders there to the Rwandan Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels.

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