{"id":18751,"date":"2025-05-07T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/minerals-mobile-phones-and-militias-how-war-unfolded-in-drc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:37:16","slug":"minerals-mobile-phones-and-militias-how-war-unfolded-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/minerals-mobile-phones-and-militias-how-war-unfolded-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Minerals, mobile phones and militias: how war unfolded in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises<\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/24\/drc-government-and-m23-make-surprise-truce-to-end-fighting-in-east-of-country\">a peace agreement<\/a> in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our east Africa correspondent, Carlos Mureithi, about the conflict, how quickly it escalated and the prospects for peace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/may\/07\/minerals-mobile-phones-and-militias-war-and-peace-in-drc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9bd21f2739fe8980775522a59a8d057bc7fc2bcd\/494_0_2689_2151\/master\/2689.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7ee0c728427848492f94ab6ec68e2f96\" title=\"Minerals, mobile phones and militias: how war unfolded in DRC\" \/>How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises<br \/>\nHello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our east Africa correspondent, Carlos Mureithi, about the conflict, how quickly it escalated and the prospects for peace. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/minerals-mobile-phones-and-militias-how-war-unfolded-in-drc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minerals, mobile phones and militias: how war unfolded in DRC<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}