the DRC filed criminal complaints in Belgium and France against subsidiaries of the US tech group, alleging they used minerals supplied by armed groups committing atrocities in eastern Congo.

Belgium’s foreign minister Hadja Lahbib ... ALSO READ: UN confirms FDLR active in DR Congo, warns of genocide The Congolese army, or FARDC, is pursuing a military campaign, with a coalition ...

Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium ... he ruled the Congo Free State as an absolute monarch, pillaging it of lucrative rubber and minerals during a genocide that ...