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Al Jazeera
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Lorraine Mallinder

‘Blood minerals’: What are the hidden costs of the EU-Rwanda supply deal?

Labourers work at an open shaft of the SMB coltan mine near the town of Rubaya in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on August 13, 2019 [Baz Ratner/Reuters]

As the green revolution revs up, the European Union has signed a deal with Rwanda that will ensure a supply of precious minerals needed to build clean tech like solar panels and electric vehicles.

What’s not to like? As the European Commission described it, after inking a Memorandum of Understanding back in February, the deal will “nurture sustainable and resilient value chains for critical raw materials”.

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