2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The following lists events in the year 2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Events
  • 2017: Morgan Stanley projects 1 billion electric vehicles in use globally by 2050 and 800% increase in demand for cobalt, used in electric car batteries, by 2026.[1]
  • February 2017 - Glencore agreed to pay Dan Gertler $534m (£407m) for his share of their joint mining interests in DR Congo.[2]
  • 14 February 2017 – The UN reveals that Congolese soldiers had killed 101 people including 30 women while fighting the Kamwina Nsapu rebels in Kasaï-Central.[3]
  • 23 March 2017 – 2017 Congolese police decapitation attacks
  • 22 April 2017 to 1 July 2017 – 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
  • July 2017 - United Nations has documented 80 mass graves in Kasai unrest that began in August 2016[4]
  • 7 August 2017 -Congolese soldiers forces killed at least 14 Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) rebels in clashes in the capital Kinshasa and southwestern city of Matadi.A policeman also died.[5]
  • 16 August 2017 – 2017 DR Congo landslide
  • 26 August 2017 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections, 2017, are held in 11 provinces.
  • 29 August 2017 – Three provinces have a second round of voting as part of the gubernatorial elections.
  • 6 November 2017 - details emerge in Paradise Papers reporting of a loan from Glencore to Dan Gertler in 2008 when it needed to renegotiate its agreement with state mining company Gécamines for its Katanga mine.[2]
  • 7 December 2017 – 2017 Semuliki attack
  • 21 December 2017 – Delayed gubernatorial elections are held in three provinces (Kasaï-Central, Mongala, and Equateur).
  • 2017: the price of cobalt increased 127% over the course of 2017.[6]
  • 2017: Congo DR produced 64,000 metric tons of cobalt.[7]

Deaths
Étienne Tshisekedi

References
  1. ROB NIKOLEWSKI (February 22, 2018). "Electric vehicles' future relies on cobalt. It's often mined by children and is soaring in price". Los Angeles Times.
  2. "Paradise Papers documents raise questions over African mining deal". BBC Panorama. BBC. 6 November 2017.
  3. "UN: Soldiers kill 101 in clashes with Kamwina Nsapu".
  4. Caritas (8 November 2017). "Keeping watch in Kasai in Congo". ReliefWeb.
  5. "Congo security forces kill at least 14 in rebel clashes: Clashes followed attack by BDK members on Kinshasa's main prison and protests by other members against President Kabila". Al-Jazeera.
  6. Cobalt: A Metal Poised to Peak (Report). Stratfor. January 8, 2018. Archived from the original on March 1, 2018.
  7. Rob Nikolewski (March 1, 2018). "The electric vehicle revolution has a cobalt problem". San Diego Union-Tribune.
  8. Ross, Aaron (2 February 2017). "Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, dies at 84". Reuters. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
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