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Al Jazeera
Priyanka Shankar

Why has DRC filed criminal charges against Apple over ‘conflict minerals’?

Gold miners fill bags of soil containing gold at the Luhihi gold mine in the eastern province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [File: Alexis Huguet/AFP]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple’s subsidiaries in France and Belgium over the use of “conflict minerals” in their supply chains.

Lawyers representing the Central African country, claimed in a statement this week that Apple’s subsidiaries in Europe are using conflict minerals sourced in sub-Saharan Africa and accused the company of “using deceptive commercial practices to assure consumers that the tech giant’s supply chains are clean”.

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