A Congolese miner chips away inside a deep mine located some 200 km west of the eastern Congolese town of Goma in the north Kivu region on April 12, 2010. ©BELGA EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly debates conflict diamonds Kivu region particularly affected The illegal mining of so-called "conflict minerals" such as gold, cobalt and coltan, is rife in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region.
Raktuve Gomas pilsētā, Kivu regiona ziemeļos, Kongo ©BELGA_AFP_EMANNUEL PEUCHOT Tā saukto "konflikta minerāļu" - zelta, kobalta un koltana - nelikumīga ieguve joprojām turpinās Kongo Demokrātiskās Republikas (KDR) austrumu daļā un Lielo ezeru reģionā.