UN: Rwandan coltan exporter Boss Mining bought smuggled Congo minerals

Miners working at a coltan site in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo on May 7, 2025.

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Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighbouring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a confidential report by a group of United Nations experts that was reviewed by Reuters.

The UN report marks the first time the world body has named a company that’s purportedly complicit in trafficking minerals looted from Congo since M23 insurgents seized a key mining area there last year.