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Democratic Republic of Congo’s mines minister has suspended the head of the state agency overseeing artisanal and small-scale mining, accusing him of failing to prevent illegal mining on licensed concessions, according to an order seen by Reuters. Mines minister Louis Kabamba Watum suspended Jean-Paul Kadiobo Kapongo, director general of the Service d’Assistance et d’Encadrement de l’Exploitation Miniere Artisanale et a Petite Echelle (SAEMAPE), on October 21, the document showed.
