Rwanda mining authorities held a two days press conference to express its willingness to advocating for the right origin of minerals extracted from Rwandan soil so to be sold to the international market without any hindrance after the Dood & Frank Bill forbade the minerals from this region to enter the international market due to its suspicious origin.
The authorities affirm minerals from Rwanda have a legal origin and urge that they should be sold to both Western and Asian markets as all legal minerals.
Silas Sinyigaya affirms that the reasons for this ban for minerals from Rwanda is politically and economically motivated.
It is commonly known that the minerals from Rwanda are internationally standardized but some of international actors choose to buy minerals that are less standardized to a cheap prices, he said.
Karasira Peter said that the fact that Rwanda is linked number three as an exporter of minerals before the DRC should not surprise anyone because Rwanda strives to do mineral search as to find as many minerals as possible to process.
Even if Rwanda has few minerals but it does its possible to process them effectively better than DRC does even if it contains more minerals than Rwanda, Karasira states.
Based on the fact that in the region extract the minerals to finance their inhumane actions against the humanity, the ICGLR member countries have agreed that all minerals from the region should hold a legal etiquette to identify them and hinder the illegally extracted ones from entering the international market.
The decisions in the matter have been agreed upon by summit of Heads of States gathered at Lusaka, Zambia as to set transparency on the mineral extraction and processing.
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