Kolwezi

[kohl-wez-ee]

noun

1. a city in S Zaire.

Example Sentences

To determine just how much of a toll cobalt takes on people who live near mines, researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium and the University of Lubumbashi in the DRC conducted a case study in Kasulo, an urban neighborhood in the city of Kolwezi.

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The groups said they interviewed 133 people affected by evictions related to cobalt and copper mining in six locations around the city of Kolwezi in Lualaba Province during separate visits in February and September 2022.

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The report also highlighted a neighborhood in Kolwezi, home to 39,000 people, that has been facing continuous demolitions since 2015 to make way for an open-pit copper and cobalt mine.

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One demonstrator, Benjamin Kitobo, said he was abused when he was a boy in a seminary in the city of Kolwezi.

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“There are people who chartered planes to come here because there were so many of them!” marveled Inniance Mukania, who travelled to Kinshasa from the Kolwezi diocese in southern Congo.

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