A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn\u2019t helping<\/p>\n
When Donald Trump boasted recently that he had stopped the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2013 though fighting persists in the DRC, at appalling human cost<\/a> \u2013 he made\u00a0clear that his goals went beyond a long-sought Nobel Peace prize.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said to me, \u2018Please, please, we would love you to come and take our minerals.\u2019 Which we\u2019ll do,\u201d the US president added. Now he is following through. Last Monday he launched a new strategic reserve<\/a> plan, \u201cProject Vault\u201d, worth almost $12bn. Two days later, JD\u00a0Vance hosted a summit seeking to create a trade zone<\/a> for critical minerals.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn\u2019t helping When Donald Trump boasted recently that he had stopped the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2013 though fighting persists in the DRC, at appalling human cost \u2013 he made\u00a0clear … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}