UN: Rwandan coltan exporter Boss Mining bought smuggled Congo minerals

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 from Congo since M23 insurgents seized a key mining area there last year.

Boss Mining was named in the UN report, which documents how territorial gains in Congo by M23 have further destabilized a region beset by decades of conflict.