Infrastructure at the Shinkolobwe uranium mine, near the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Investigation raises alarm over uranium in DRC cobalt shipments to China

    Lighthouse Reports obtained a previously undisclosed internal memo from the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2024 and began investigating its contents. The 2009 document cited credible information indicating that uranium was present in “significant quantities” in most cobalt ores from Katanga, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and was “effectively exported as…

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