{"id":17342,"date":"2026-01-30T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17342"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:23:28","slug":"more-than-200-killed-in-coltan-mine-collapse-in-eastern-drc-officials-say-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17342","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say | Democratic Republic of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the province where the mine is located, told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rubaya produces about 15% of the world\u2019s coltan, which is processed into tantalum \u2013 a heat-resistant metal that is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components and gas turbines. The site, where locals dig manually for a few dollars per day, has been under the control of the M23 rebel group since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The collapse occurred on Wednesday and the precise toll was still unclear as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMore than 200 people were victims of this landslide, including miners, children and market women. Some people were rescued just in time and have serious injuries,\u201d Muyisa said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An adviser to the governor said the number of confirmed dead was at least 227. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to brief the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The UN says M23 has plundered Rubaya\u2019s riches to help fund its insurgency, backed by the government of neighbouring Rwanda \u2013 an allegation Kigali denies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The heavily armed rebels, whose stated aim is to overthrow the government in Kinshasa and ensure the safety of the Congolese Tutsi minority, captured even more mineral-rich territory in eastern Congo during a lightning advance last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#killed #coltan #collapse #eastern #DRC #officials #Democratic #Republic #Congo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 people were kill&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}