Exclusive: Congo President Tshisekedi accuses Apple of using smuggled minerals | DW News
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- Tech giant Apple is facing serious accusations by the Democratic Republic of Congo over its procurement of minerals, which are reported to have been smuggled from the DRC into Rwanda. Legal representatives of the country country query the use of the so-called 3T minerals, which are reported to have been smuggled from the DRC's war-torn east and have issued a stern warning to Apple, threatening possible legal repercussions.
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#drc #apple #smartphone
I love this president, he's never scared of calling out the truth and he's wish for a better Congo. Honestly Congo should be one of the richest countries
DRC is the richest country in Africa and one in the whole world 🌎.
@@NanyVenas53And also the country who feed other the most, in term of minerals
Merci beaucoup bro
It all comes down to how the minerals resources are used. If you have Diamonds and you don't have use for it. people will exploit it.
@@NT_98YU Truely true
He’s not lying
yea sure .. only Apple is responsible lol not Samsung or other Manufactures .. my BS detector is going on Full!!
@@aaronparys1750 I didn’t say that . They’re all complicit as are we or anyone making TH-cam comments from a phone. Until we decide that capitalism isn’t worth living off the backs of African mothers w their children strapped to they backs mining minerals it won’t stop. Which it prolly won’t cuz we’re content with people being poor and dying if we are comfortable. Which I’m not saying is good or bad just the truth
It’s actually his responsibility to clear things up…
Who is importing these minerals in raw form?
Did you even watch the full thing ? Y’all are some fools.
THANK YOU for shedding more light to this issue that is ever more hightening! DRC is need of nothing but the TRUTH!
What!!!!!!!???? I will boycott Iphone from now on.
China sold them the minerals. Boycott China. You just swallow whatever the media tells you or what?
🙏🏽🇨🇩❤️
Tesla and Samsung too
Is true appel is using blood minerals from DRC congo 🇨🇩, is USA 🇺🇸 supporting M23 and European 🇪🇺. We know everything is why they are so quiet 🤫
M23 has 12yrs in exile he has 2yrs in battles apple has how many yrs??
?how many yrs those minerals In exploitation has and who is responsible for protecting those minerals?
M23 operating in 0,00000001% of DRC Congo superficie and how comes all minerals from DRC belongs of M23? ?
M23 Recuperer RUBAYA site in one week ago is that week apple start to use and produce fones in those minerals ?
M23 is not the first group used by USA companies to loot RDC minerals. Learn to use youtube to cultivate knowledge so that you do not look like a not knowledgable person.
Rwanda is the one supporting the m23
He is not lying Apple is using blood minerals.
What about Samsung?
@@cyamatarerodrigue9972Samsung is also doing it
@@cyamatarerodrigue9972Samsung Don't give to Rwanda weapon to killers many KOngolese people for free and blood minéral.
He is not lashing out. He is explaining the dire situation his country finds itself. I don't know why is that called lashing
He is doing such a great job im proud of him i know progress isn’t instant but you can see the changes he’s making but first he has to get rid of the many massive challenges in the nation a vast majority of them from foreign sponsored armed groups
President Traore of Burkina Faso has never complained but he has done a great job in his country just a few months after taking over. I haven't seen what Stshisekedi has done for the past years that he has been in power.
@@dianneng358everyone is different and also DRC is not Burkina Faso that means they can’t proceed in same way because they have different challenges
@@nellykabamanya3995 Nothing will ever be achieved in DRC with this kind of excuses and mentality. I know exactly what I am talking about, so please keep your opinion to yourself.
2024 mark the first year of Apple long decline.
Apple iPhone’s China shipments plunging 33% in February, Huawei phone surge 67%
Yep huawei another product of Chinese technology theft that’s all their good at stealing tech and creating cheaper versions with a back door for espionage
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway continues to sell Apple, holding in Apple slashing about 13%
Build the grand inga dam and end corruption
Rwanda betrayed Congo 😢
We need justice
Try boosting productivity to fix trade balance with the outside, then you least can fix the problems of relying on such conflicting commodities or better improve the extraction method
What an hypocrite! It's HIS job to protect the people of Congo. He doesn't do it and blames everyone else...Lame!
How can he protect them the man is only western puppet his hand tight at his back by western government if he try to protect his people his life will be in danger
Not only that he only calls out Apple. When there is Huawei, Oppo, BYD, ZTE, Samsung, CATL and many more of them from SE Asia that consumes way more congolese minerals than Apple.
He's just started defending his people. Russia is already helping out providing equipment and training.
@@jkandiechesang And how long has he been in office? Also, why is he not passing laws to defend congolese workers? He doesn't need Russia for that.
@@SH3V3K_14 it doesn't work like that.
Nice move by the government.... Kick Apple out
Yeah kick one company out, but let china control all their resources, very smart lol. This is why african countries keep getting robed, you blame the little guy, but are totally blind on the ones who are actually taking everything.
Yuck!
In February 2024 European Union has signed with rwanda a big contract for 3-T minerals, while rwanda does not have any in its soil ! USA and European Union are the one using rwanda. More than 15 million people are dead and they don't wanna talk about or examining the mapping report, which the international community has !
Apple you have to go buy minerals in Congo no to Ruanda because Congo need money for their people
Well said ✌🏾
Why doesn’t he then fight the rebels with his army?
Hmm so who is funding and supplying the rebels? 😅
Your question tells how ignorant you're about the situation in DRC. For your information, DRC has been unjustifiably banned by the UN and the Western countries from buying weapons of war for it Amy since 1998. How would they fight against the rebels?
@@kwalelalipimile3894 is he? Is this corruption? I don’t know sincerely asking
@@dannydn8083 indeed I am quite ignorant of the situation. So is there no army to fight the rebels? Is this President corrupt?
@@pizza8107 either CIA and MI5/6 are incompetent or complicit, which do you think?
Nothing will come of this. US corporations answer to no one. Not even US politicians. Companies own the US, whose states are also corporations.
Times are changing
Bro it's a country they will respond
We are closing the borders with Rwanda then?🔥
I’m so sad this guy wants money instead of Peace
Why is he trying to blame Apple like 90% of their minerals, especially in Africa are controlled by China. So technically China is selling it to Apple. It feels like he just doesn't want to call China out. Why? Because he knows he's going to face some sort of backlash or consequence from the Chinese for saying so to blame apple is just ridiculous.
That's china trying turn the blame to America like always
very true
China is probably not digging minerals in Congo without sending some decent yuans his way...
Is not China 🇨🇳 apple product are not belong to China 🇨🇳 it is America product, china 🇨🇳 don’t sell anything is it America 🇺🇸, eu , uk all the conflict in are caused by western world because exploitation of minerals resources western governments are evil.
Stop blaming china 🇨🇳 , America 🇺🇸 and western governments are the Africans problems exploitation of countries is evil 👿
Bloody aluminium. Oh wow apple.
And what about his one !!?
He's not mad about the "blood minerals".
He's just mad he didn't get his cut.
You are very useless his our President he can get or have anything he want in Congo, and if he want a cut not from Rwanda
The bloodshed in DRC also falls on you, "Defender of Apple and Kagame".
@@kadunyifoundation You can blame your own corrupt leaders for that.
Not my youtube comment LMFAO.
Sorry for you guys, unfortunately you don't know the man...
Rwandais
They will keep you fighting amongst yourselves and exploit your minerals!!
Corruption is the reason for DRC’s failure to its people. Another example of a government looking after a select few while citizens live in squalor, who will they blame next for their inability to manage a country…
Really if you don't know or understand keep your cheap comment to yourself or tell your grandma
The west is the one person who starts corruption not africans.they do the approaching not we going to them.they come to us and say do this and I will give you money and be my yes boy.
You're benefiting from blood minerals... I can tell!
That does not answer such a huge allegation. This comment is taking us away from the main issues begging for answers.
Rwanda is not stopping the Congolese government from paying its soldiers or other government workers. Y'all need to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your actions.
The Congolese government can't even pay the soldiers who are on the front lines dying for the country, while the politicians are busy playing with money.
world's biggest company at who's cost ?
What about his government or even himself? Maybe they got more blood in their hands. They're supposed to protect their own citizens.
Just say you don’t know what your talking about
Who has managed to protect its citizens from the exploitation of the West? Colonialism history is evidence 😅
@@stephendmccormickjr8200who controls the mines? Who imports 90% of the mineral wealth from Congo? Oh that’s right. Sit down.
No he doesn't is Kagame and the Rwandese who have tanks of Congolese blood
@roelralutin7805 @@12time12 Maybe you should speak on why DRC had an embargo placed on it so they could not buy weapons to fight back while simultaneously being attacked by the neighboring country's?, shut your mouth when you don't know what you are talking about
Strong leader ! Thanks
😂😂😂😂 strong leader ???? A very weak one
you can do it better?
@@user-xo7cs1dd4b, ask how many of the mbororo long noses dead since his be power?🔥
it took him 100 years but it is a good start. He is beginning to look like he cares about his people.
Blame .They have lincensed China to mine and they can't call out China.
Maybe because there's a fair partnership. He didn't say no mining.
Congo mines are controlled by western countries,France and Americans, Belgians too.f24 will mislead you.lestin carefully 🤘
@@montega. "Fair" ...
@@CarsonSingclere Go ahead and explain otherwise then....
@@montega. Nothing fair from China. If it were fair no congolese will be hosted in the neighbouring East African countries. There are many in my country.
So Apple buys raw minerals?
No, he's trying to shift the blame cause he can't outwardly say China or he'll face retribution from the CCP.
China have légal contracts here@@GoGoPooerRangers
@@GoGoPooerRangersNo its true, because M23 is killing citizens from the east of DRC, take minerals to Rwanda, then give them to the huge Mark like Tesla,Samsung,HP and others
Interesting article. I always hear this issue connected with Apple. Does Samsung get its minerals elsewhere? If so, where? Or is it that people just like picking on Apple? I really don’t know.
Just picking on Apple, because 90% of the minerals are controlled by China and they supply it to all tech companies. This man has some ulterior motives and it's obvious because why isn't he blaming China?
I think it is like calling tissue kleenex or a vacuum cleaner a hoover. Apple just means cell phone in this context, i think
All these Major smartphone companies are all benefiting in one or the other way from the tragedy happening Congo for decades now. Actually, critical minerals used in electronics and aeronotics are mostly coming from the Congo land. This critical natural resources endowed country has largest reserve worldwide.
Even china and Europe are benefiting. The different factions each has its own sponsor.
But why does he put all blame on Rwanda 🇷🇼???
Instead of himself?
Imagine a big country like DRC which can’t fight a group of rebellions of M23!
just give he and the gang money, simple
He doesn’t need a money but justice. Is because apple killed and steel DRC money that why he needed justice for those who lost their life and Orphaned , abused women and children, man made by apple. You are happy to use your phone,laptop… you use someone blood don’t see money in everything but see peace,respect, justice, make your money in honesty and in good way
Probably this guy did not get his cut😂😂
I don't get it...
The 2 nuclear bombs dropped on Japan contained Uranium mined in DRC. Pu in the Nagasaki bomb was synthesized using U from the same source. Just facts not a point.
This guy just has his hand out begging for a bribe, no better than a panhandler. Best to ignore him.
Meanwhile poeple are dying! Keep joking because you have no relatives there.
Avant de parler de pot de vin cherchez d'abord à connaître ce qui se passe réellement à l'est de la RDC .
A moins de faire partir déjà ceux qui sont complices de cette situation .
I'm sorry but why isn't he blaming China for this? China controls like 90% of the minerals, especially in Africa. They are the ones that sell it to Apple.
Because he’s looking for money.
It's America... CHINA just do business...
It looks that you are Trump supporter China China...what he is talking is something different. I wish China controls 100% of minerals, and then the poor locals could get relative peace. It is West's philosophy involving in local politics and weakening governments for their own gread. It is well known that the West is using Rwanda to destabilize that great lake region!
@@King-vo7vmthat makes no sense, China owns and operates the mines for the last 10 years. Look it up, they all have Chinese bosses now - why do you think some locals started kidnapping chinamen. They’re going to rob you blind just like they do with fishing and logging. Oh well, it’s your problem now.
@@King-vo7vmDuhhh. That's the point. If China is the one doing business and selling it to Apple, then why not blame the entity that sold those minerals then.
Bruh. What I got from this is APPLE IS GETTING THESE RESOURCES FROM THE CONGO AND THE WORKING CONDITIONS ARE TERRIBLE.
Boycott apple
And congo does some serious humanitarian law breaking in the congo
He's boy lying, but I'm sure he's using an iPhone as well, hypocrisy
That's why I am for deep sea mining. No child labor, no contamination of drinking water, no deforestation.
This must be settled up
They have to pay a huge fine to congoleses
Presidents suit looks like money made from selling those minerals too...
What a horrid comment.. u are an accomplice to the bloodshed in DRC
@@user-ce1dw2lx9q remember... NOONE STOLE the minerals. They were SOLD... exported... with LOCAL accomplices. So lets share the guilt a bit, shall we?
He was wearing a $200, 000 watch a Patek Phillipe 5720 Green
L'ivresse du sang congolais@@withgrowinginsanity198
@@LocalK5000 his suit does not negate what he has said. Apple is a murderous company.
All Apple has to say is they got thim from China
It's the truth. China controls like 90% of the minerals.
Is that your justification for your apple product?😅
@@kwalelalipimile3894yes, because China owns the mines. He’s too much of a coward to say the truth.
@@kwalelalipimile3894 I have android 🤣
@@hardcore476 good for you, out of choice or budget?
People should watch the short cartoon man by Steve cutts
Félix Tshisekedi is the swallow that announces spring in Africa. Africa has the shape of a revolver whose trigger is found in Congo. Frantz Fanon
"Someone said to let them in. " Don't make me laugh it's his job to defend. Any gov working with the UN is to be held in question. Rwandan president has always pointed to the chaos in Congo. This president I hold in total question - Paul Kagame has been trying to help Congo for so long. This president is the mouth piece of the West this is my take. The west don't want Kagame in there.
I'm not interested in nothing the president of the Congo says until he take the ownership of those 16 natural resources mines from the Chinese. There should be no ownership of any natural resources from anyone outside Africa or directly from the people of Congo. What deals they made to hand over 16 mineral resources to Chinese. Take care of that then talk to the peoples after.
THEY IS MY MINERALS!!! ALL MINE!!!
How can a phone be smarter than Africans??
That watch on his wrist is a Patek Phillipe Grand Complications 5720P Green Chronograph worth atleast $200,000 🤔
Its Foxconn supplier not Apple lol 😂😂
Are you apple defender ? Wait and see this is the beginning of Netflix
Try to understand the sustainability supply chain then you will never write stupidly again
Is there blood inside that expensive watch on his wrist?
- "Mr. President, why has your government been unable to decrease the poverty rate in your country?"
- "It is Kagame, Apple 🍏 and E.T the culprit for the 1000 years"
If you don't understand anything rather not comment. Us Congolese we have suffered a lot from the international community at large.
@@paulka90 What do you understand here more than the obvious? You should learn how much revenue your country obtains yearly from legal mining companies and how much is used in education or healthcare before commenting. The biggest crooks in your country are not foreigners.
Care more about the numbers and the facts than my comments.
@@paulka90 We can talk about the balance sheet of the Gecamine since 1990, the economic growth and social improvement in Katanga while Moïse Katumbi was governor, the few millions that were directly paid by multinationals to the K. family through their bank in order to avoid paying billions in taxes.... But please, do not assume that you know more than me just because of what is written on your passport.
Since u know so much tell us where in rwanda does Kagame get minerals from .. give us detailed locations in rwanda if u cant.. be quiet
@@user-ce1dw2lx9q What are you implying? The DRC government itself via Nicolas Kazadi announced in 2023 that "close to $1bn in gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten" were stolen from the country by Rwanda... How much do you think your government earns annually? Do you really need me to teach you about your own country?
DRC is +10 times more populated than Rwanda, ~100 times bigger in size, and over 10 000 times in mineral resources. Your country is bigger and stronger than you think. Your politics make it sound weak.
Clear; no comment,
What cell phone does Felix chisekedi or the president of DRC is using? I think he has an iPhone. Why shouldn't he banned all use of iPhone in his country.
A good doctor fight the cause of problems not the consequences that mean consequences can go by self if you tackle the causes. Next time think with your brain then your belly
When minerals are mined in DRC's by international firms, from Europe, China, North America, they are transported to industrial countries such as China, some use air transport, others road transport to reach Indian Ocean. That where Rwanda comes in as a transit to the eastern ports of Africa. Rwanda is not responsible of how Minerals are mined in DRC. as DRC is a sovereign state with land borders and it's order. When minerals are received in Rwanda, they are recorded and taxed accordingly. scapegoating Rwanda as the problem is just a coward move.
When you have a 150+ armed groups, where most of them were result of defence and protection of their community because the government can't pick up the responsibilities, but somehow you single out one group because they speak kinyarwanda as the main problem, it is just evading your responsibilities. How comes in Kinshasa people have Lamborghini and in Eastern DRC people don't have basics needs? poor leadership will be the end of Africa.
Arrrg I have to stop using IPhone :( !
That country should not be the second poorest country in the world.😡.. this man made a whole continent one of the richest continent in the world instead of his own and they beonder why they get the most disrespect
Does this add value or make it less valuable?
It means Apple is making more profit off it by cutting costs.
Who enforces the laws of a country? The government. It is the government's duty to enforce the law. It is the government's duty to stop smuggling. The president of Congo has the duty to ensure that no smuggling happens in his country. This country's president is incompetent and asinine.
Your Congolese, despise the dominion of organised industry and tax collection ,killing each other over the resources.
Is that a Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar Chronograph on his wrist?
I was wondering what watch it was. At least 200,000 usd, I wonder ... looks like the Grand Complications 5270P Perpetual Calender Chronogragh Green Platinum
Yet you're the president of the country sir? The hypocrisy 😊
If you understand the game which the occidents are playing for that area with the killer Kagame, you will cry. Can you understand why British government wants to send asylum seekers to Rwanda?
Okay know what lmfao
So what is he doing about it? Ffs
😂 Blaming foreign entities is the order if the day for African leaders.
African countries should shut down all minerals for a while and then they must price their with a valuable amount just like these countries who have oil, gas etc But if one country is challenging the western countries alone definitely that one country will fail
Apple and its cohorts US must be made to pay in full All the looted minerals in Dr Congo
Congo has to make sure they dont stop till they stop
He’s right
Isn't it the government who is responsible for that? 🙄
He doesn't care, what he wants is a new house, car and yacht sponsored by Apple 🤑
Just search Belgium D R Congo history, it will enlighten you 😅
@@kwalelalipimile3894 "History". I am talking about the present.
@@kwalelalipimile3894 lets talk about the pyramids of giza while we're at it shall we?
You might be right, but currently those minerals are all stolen by fascist Rwanda and China.
While America 🇺🇸 is arming those rebels
He wants to make some money.
Stop making fun😒
If you were born on the east of Congo, you wouldn't say that. Please stand with congolese. They deserve a better life as well.
He can have all the money he wants he is the president of DRC
This is not racism!!!
This is just a company trying to survive.
Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, tiktok, meta, all the managers arrested the world wouldn't miss a thing
not talking about racism but crime. Have you heard about blood diamond in Sierra Leone, Angola, etc.? Was that also companies trying to survive?
Thanks for sharing this inside of the war in East of Congo. We have been asking question why this war taking time almost 30 ans with 15 Millions deaths still no 1 is taking about it even so called international Community becoz they are the evils one behind it to gain minerals in cheaper price.
This is what Africa suffers, colonialism and greed from west and their agents
Que des betises
African political integration should precede economic integration, Intra-Africa trade should be increased, one African passport implemented
why not boycott iPhone if so?
He talks too much, and done so little
Congo should make a deal with Russia 🇷🇺 to keep their minerals safe otherwise America 🇺🇸 is a threat to their economy
Russia wants the minerals to , for manufacturing their military equipments
@@alanbronzecreations2011 maybe if you are biased with Russia but has no record of stealing than USA 🇺🇸
Question: How does Rwanda with no proven record of these minerals officially becomes the largest producer and exporter of the Three Ts. Rwanda and Uganda loots gold, diamonds and oil from the region. It also benefits them economically as they block local production of food through armed groups, thus forcing Ugandan and Rwandan agricultural products on the population that side.
The plan has always been expansionism to create Hima Tutsi empire as you can see theres a Tutsi president in Uganda and Rwanda. As they push people out through war Rwandan citizens are then made to settle in these areas. The plan is to take the whole of the Eastern Congo down to the border with the Southern region to form a new state that will be majority ethnic tsutsi and run by a Tsutsi president who will be a puppet of both Rwanda, Uganda and the West.
And what happens to the maining minerals ?
@zurumaasai2536 these minerals are all exploited by Rwandan and Ugandan government supplementing their budgets.
When you have a 150+ armed groups, where most of them were result of defence and protection of their community because the government can't pick up the responsibilities, but somehow you single out one group because they speak kinyarwanda as the main problem, it is just evading your responsibilities. How comes in Kinshasa people have Lamborghini and in Eastern DRC people don't have basics needs? poor leadership will be the end of Africa.
Who made that group and where they are coming from and who supported them ? If you get an answer to all the questions I asked you then you can make a comment,don’t think by your heart but use your brain
@@nellykabamanya3995 The first question, someone should ask is, what does Rwanda stand to gain in Burundi? The excuse of minerals in DRC I don't think it applies to Burundi case.
@@nellykabamanya3995 most of the groups are originally from DRC within, if I am correct. you can't possibly blame everything on Neighbours. and we have also to question the power vacuum. When there is not leadership local will lead themselves.
What about the blood of tutsi population slaughtered by his government and its génociders milicias ,
Murashaka ko leta izatwica ikatumara nibwo muzishima
Your bank account contains stolen money ( Blood Money) a president who doesn’t know his own salary 😊
Sinzi niba atejyereje ko dushira abanyarwanda ntabuzima tugifite ducyeneye ubutabazi nkabaturajye rubanda rugufi tubaho mubukoroni
Uhaze ibiki mwana??
Civilization has entered late-stage capitalism.
Capitalism is an insatiable hunger, one which is inherently incapable of expressing the concept of "enough" - it's a system that must chronically engorge (without pause).
Poverty is the mother of necessity; the comfort of the rich, depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
the Alchemist
-Ø1
That is a fantastic comment. Really well put!
Theyyyyyreeew great
Tony the Tiger
Am 100% sure him and his kids own iPhone and a nobody here is boycotting iPhone🫣.
Dont you see the watch his wearing???