Flagship Campaign
Congo’s Minerals.
Congo’s Future.
Congo’s natural resources should become a foundation for peace, industrialisation, innovation, employment and shared prosperity. This is what the campaign asks the world — and Congo — to do about it.
The world needs Congolese cobalt, copper, lithium and coltan for its energy transition. Congo needs something in return that is more durable than a shipping manifest: peace, plants, skills and pay slips.
For a century, the value of Congolese geology has been assembled somewhere else. That is a policy outcome, not a law of nature. The campaign exists to change the terms of the bargain: to make responsible sourcing verifiable, to make processing a condition rather than an aspiration, and to make Congolese women, young people, firms and communities shareholders in what the ground produces.
What we are campaigning for.
Responsible extraction
Due diligence enforced where the metal is refined, not only where the ore is dug. No legal market for minerals that finance armed groups.
Local value creation
Every major mining agreement should carry a financed, dated processing commitment — anodes, cathodes, sulphates, precursor.
Community benefit
Community development funds that are audited and published, and consent processes that happen before the bulldozers.
Transparent supply chains
Public smelter lists, interoperable traceability and origin data that a journalist or a cooperative can actually check.
Industrial development
Power, corridors and clusters sequenced together — Maluku, Musompo/Kolwezi and a Lobito-side logistics and food node.
Technology and skills
Named Congolese understudies, technical institutes beside the plants, and manuals in the languages of the site.
Congolese participation
Local content on substance: 51% ownership plus the capability to do the work, verified on beneficial ownership.
The campaign is a set of commitments, not a hashtag.
For governments and institutions
- Harmonise due-diligence expectations so suppliers face one coherent rule
- Tie critical-minerals partnerships to processing, protection and jobs
- Fund traceability and ASM formalisation as public goods
For companies and investors
- Publish smelter lists and mine-site assessments
- Buy from verified Congolese suppliers and pay within 30 days
- Treat human-rights and tailings exposure as credit risk
For the diaspora and the public
- Join syndicates and returnships instead of one-off donations
- Mentor a Congolese SME with a first purchase order
- Carry the argument into your own institutions and media