Rwanda

Rwanda (/ruːˈɑːndə/ or /ruːˈændə/ ( listen); Kinyarwanda: U Rwanda [u.ɾɡwanda]), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: Repubulika y'u Rwanda; French: République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in central and east Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and is highly elevated; its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year.

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Blockchain app for miners in Rwanda ensures the minerals in your iPhone are conflict-free

A Bit of News 17 Jan 2019

Circulor signed an agreement last year with the Rwandan government and mining association, to use its blockchain system to track raw materials extracted in Rwanda right along the supply chain, from mine to shelf ... For the small mining companies based in Rwanda, there is little impact to their workload....

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DRC miner SMB leaves responsible-sourcing scheme to join another

Business Day 08 Jan 2019

In a letter to the DRC's mines minister dated December 13, SMB said "the Societe Miniere de Bisunzu had no choice but to end its relations with ITSCI" because it could no longer pay "higher and higher costs" ... "That ITSCI does not review the traceability cost is a huge burden to all of us," Rwanda Mining Association chair Jean Malic Kalima said....

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Congo miner SMB leaves ITSCI responsible-sourcing scheme over cost

This is Money 08 Jan 2019

SMB, in a letter to the Democratic Republic of Congo's mines minister dated Dec ... However, many mining companies have said the costs of ITSCI are increasingly burdensome. "That ITSCI does not review the traceability cost is a huge burden to all of us," Rwanda Mining Association Chairman Jean Malic Kalima told Reuters....

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Congolese mining company leaves ITSCI certification scheme over cost

This is Money 07 Jan 2019

SMB, in a letter to Democratic Republic of Congo's mine's minister dated Dec ... However, many mining companies say the costs of the scheme are increasingly a burden. "The fact that ITSCI does not review the traceability cost is a huge burden to all of us," Jean Malic Kalima, the chairman of the Rwanda Mining Association, told Reuters....

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Global Tungsten Industry

Market Watch 07 Jan 2019

Breakdown of Mine Production in Metric Tons for Austria, Bolivia, China, Mongolia, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Spain, United Kingdom, Vietnam, and Other Countries (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) ... New & Upcoming Mining Projects to Augment Mine Production ... Select Development Stage Tungsten Mines ... Mining and Refining ... Ormonde Mining plc (Ireland)....

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Chinese airlines could help boost East Africa's economic growth: industry insider

Xinhua 04 Jan 2019

Astral Aviation has already signed a partnership with China Southern Airlines to distribute China Southern Airlines' cargo from the Nairobi aviation hub to Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia and South Sudan. Gadhia said that it mostly handles engineering, mining equipment as well as ......

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Belgium’s Museum of Africa Tries to Exorcise Ghosts of Colonialism

Voa News 21 Dec 2018

King Leopold II commissioned the museum to generate investment for mining and rubber production in Congo and Rwanda, which then included the modern state of Burundi.For many, his name is synonymous with the brutality of empire.It’s estimated that as many as 15 million Africans ......

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Inaugural Hyperledger Global Forum

Blockspoint 19 Dec 2018

– recently launched the world’s first blockchain mine to manufacturer traceability system for raw materials used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. The Hyperledger Fabric-based system is already tracking tantalum, used into capacitors, from mines in Rwanda....

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Inaugural Hyperledger Global Forum Showcases Strong Community Momentum

Longview News-Journal 12 Dec 2018

.Circulor - recently launched the world's first blockchain mine to manufacturer traceability system for raw materials used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. The Hyperledger Fabric-based system is already tracking tantalum, used into capacitors, from mines in Rwanda....

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Brian Menell’s TechMet out to wrest control of the battery market from China

Business Day 01 Nov 2018

London — South African mining veteran Brian Menell ... The company already has stakes in a tin and tungsten mine in Rwanda, a nickel project in Brazil, a US vanadium processing plant, and a recycling facility in Canada that extracts cobalt and nickel from spent lithium batteries....

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Black Earth Rising finale review – slick Rwandan drama signs off in style

The Guardian 30 Oct 2018

Inside was an invoice that showed that the genocidaire Patrice Ganimana’s legal bills were being paid by something called the Universal Church of Christ the Peacemaker, a front for a mining company. Meanwhile, back in Rwanda, Alice (Noma Dumezweni) is having a conversation with her adoptive sister, Madame President....

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Black Earth Rising recap: the finale – it has been a grim pleasure

The Guardian 29 Oct 2018

It turns out that Kromin, the mining company working in Rwanda, have been paying off Ganimana and his people $23m a year not to interfere with their work, the payments being made to the Universal Church of Christ the Peacemaker, who only have two branches of their church, one in London, the other in the DRC, in the Sankele, the Kromin village....

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500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo

Dissident Voice 26 Oct 2018

With rebel soldiers (such as the Rwanda-backed M23), miners and poachers endlessly plundering inadequately protected national parks and other wild places for their resources, illegal mining is rampant, over-fishing a chronic problem, illegal logging (and other destruction such as ......