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RWANDA - FROM TEA TO TANTALUM

By Clarisse Uwase · 4 parts · 13 h 5 min · English

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Rwanda, 1990 to 2026: a small, orderly country that jails ministers for bribes and has never put the trade in Congo's minerals before a court. The money begins with tea — 615 tons promised to Egypt for mortars in 1992, state tea-factory trucks lent to the militia in 1994, a tea magnate accused of bankrolling a hate radio, dead untried in The Hague. It runs through an army Congo desk and army coltan earnings UN experts put at $250 million in eighteen months, pale Congolese ore sold as Rwandan, a rebel ministry of mines at Rubaya and a Kigali gold refinery sanctioned by Washington. Covers Félicien Kabuga and RTLM, Michel Bagaragaza and OCIR-Thé, James Kabarebe and the Rwanda Defence Force, Alain Goetz and the Aldango refinery, and Gasabo Gold Refinery.

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    3:10:05

  2. Part 02

    3:15:55

  3. Part 03

    3:19:55

  4. Part 04

    3:19:18

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