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The following lists events in the year 2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Incumbents
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 trends
- 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
- 1 February – Étienne Tshisekedi, politician (b. 1932).[8]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Paradise Papers documents raise questions over African mining deal". BBC Panorama. BBC. 6 November 2017.
- ^ "UN: Soldiers kill 101 in clashes with Kamwina Nsapu".
- ^ Caritas (8 November 2017). "Keeping watch in Kasai in Congo". ReliefWeb.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Cobalt: A Metal Poised to Peak (Report). Stratfor. January 8, 2018. Archived from the original on March 1, 2018.
- ^ Rob Nikolewski (March 1, 2018). "The electric vehicle revolution has a cobalt problem". San Diego Union-Tribune.
- ^ Ross, Aaron (2 February 2017). "Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, dies at 84". Reuters. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
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