1,300 compagnies américaines entretiennent l'insécurité pour exploiter le coltan, l'or et la cassiterite de l'est du Congo à travers les Rwanda et l'Ouganda et les sous-traitants Congolais!

1,300 compagnies américaines entretiennent l'insécurité pour exploiter le coltan, l'or et la cassiterite de l'est du Congo à travers les Rwanda et l'Ouganda et les sous-traitants Congolais!

Pire, il y a des sous-traitants Congolais des compagnies canadiennes, américaines, européennes, australienne, israeliennes, asiatiques... parmi la diaspora Congolaise! Qu'on se le dise!

Les Congolais (surtout ceux de la diaspora ngundeuse, les combattants blah blah) passent tout leur temps à politicailler (est ce ça ce qu'ils entendent apporter à leur pays d'origine comme contribution?) alors que leur patrimoine minier, forestier, pétrolier, foncier... leur échappe au profit des Occidentaux qui sèment la terreur l'insécurité comme stratagème pour mater les Congolais à fin de faire échapper aux Congolais leur patrimoine.

L'insécurité à l'est du Congo devient un cercle vicieux, le gouvernement doit consacrer 90% des revenus à l'armée, ce qui ne lui pemet pas de reconstruire des infrastructures modernes, créer des usines (industrialisation, nouvelles technologies, innovation, créativité) pour transformer nos sur place nos resources et créer des emplois (une main d'oeuvre industrialisée) et des marchés!

Les mandataires se contentent de l'aide extérieure (effet catholique) et des commissions jutueses de la part des multinationales! Ils ne voient qu'au bout du nez!

Pour assurer leur survie, les politiciens (surtout les opposants) se contentent de caresser les superpuissances dans le sens du poil pour qu'un jour ils bradant tout le patrimoine nationale a leur profit. les donnant tout ce qu'elles veulent sinon (...)! C'est ce que Mobutu a fait pendant 32 ans!

Les criminels d'hier issus du régime mobutiste et de l'agression anglo-américano-rwando-ougando-burundaise se la coulent douce à Kinshasa , d'autres sont réhabilités et occupent des positions clées au sein des institutions du pays. D'autres sont des étrangers qui ont adopté des nonms Congolais pour infiltrer les institutions de la RDC où ils occupent des postes clés!

Pendant ce temps à l'Arrière Pays, le paysan croupit dans l'insécurité et la misère la plus totale (viols, massacres, agression Tutsi, pillages). Il n'a qu'une houe et une natte. C'est tout ce qu'il a et il vit toujours dans une case enfumée, lui qui est citoyen de l'un des pays les plus riches du monde! Et même ceux des Congolais qui espèrent échapper à la misère pour aller vivre dans des grandes métropoles, ils y vivent dans la promiscuité la plus totale!

Quant est ce que la RDC va vraiment assurer sa 2eme indépendance, i.e, indépendance économique?

Dodd-Frank Act: Just Four Companies Had Conflict Mineral Reports Audited

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More than 1,300 U.S.-listed companies filed reports on their efforts to root out so-called conflict minerals in their supply chain, but only four companies were brave enough face an audit, according to a report Thursday.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, companies had to expose by June 2 their efforts to determine which of their suppliers might use gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum from mining operations blamed for funding armed militia groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Under the rule, companies only need to obtain an audit of their investigations if they intend to describe their products as “DRC Conflict Free.”

In this first filing year, just four companies including chip maker Intel Corp.INTC +0.54%, electronic components maker Kemet Corp.KEM +5.13%, Dutch technology company Philips, and retailer Signet Jewelers Ltd.SIG -0.87% obtained external audits, according to a review by law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel.

Ernst & Young LLP, for example, examined the steps Intel took to examine its supply chain. And while Intel says its chips are pristine, Ernst & Young only audited the company’s process and didn’t express an opinion as to whether the company’s conclusion that its microprocessors were conflict free was true.

“It was a learning process…a lot of firms just didn’t have the data the first year,” said Cary Klafter, vice president of legal corporate affairs at Intel, which spent five years collecting supply chain data ahead of the regulatory deadline.

The audit took about two months to complete, and was a new experience for the firm’s auditor as well, Mr. Klafter said. Much of that time was focused on honing wording in the firm’s conflict minerals report so that the company’s processes were described specifically enough to be audited. “There was a lot of back and forth,” Mr. Klafter said.

“Most companies are taking this seriously, but they are still at the earlier stages,” said Michael Littenberg, an attorney at Schulte Roth, who specializes in conflict minerals compliance.

The study also highlights a failure by the Commerce Department to assess the accuracy of independent audits of companies efforts, as was required by the Dodd-Frank law. Earlier this month, the Commerce Department published a list – 18 months overdue – of more than 400 sites of smelters and refiners from Australia to Brazil and Canada, but said it “does not have the ability to distinguish” which are being used to fund militia groups. However, the agency was supposed to also assess the accuracy of independent audits and make recommendations for future improvements. It still hasn’t done so.

The Commerce Department didn’t have an immediate comment as to why it has delayed the report.

Mr. Littenberg said he wasn’t surprised to see so few companies undertake the voluntary audit.

Two of the audits were completed by traditional “Big Four” accounting firms, while the other two were done by consultants.

Some 80% of companies said they couldn’t determine whether their products were conflict free, Schulte Roth said. Some 22 companies misapplied the rule and claimed their products were “conflict free,” without obtaining an audit, according to a separate review by supply chain consulting firm Source Intelligence.

Still conflict minerals audits could be on the upswing. Some firms may face competitive or investor pressure to complete the audits for this year’s filings, Mr. Littenberg said.

“I think the numbers of audited filings will tick up a little more this year, but I’d be surprised if there’s a dramatic change in this number,” he said.

Write to Emily Chasan at emily.chasan@wsj.com.