Judith Kasongo News Today

For 400 hot and dusty kilometers, a two-lane highway cuts through central Africa, its path lined with the carcasses of trucks, buses and minivans, but this modest road holds outsize value for global markets, connecting some of the continent’s richest mines to the rest of the world and, most notably, China. Along the route, thousands of flatbed trucks haul sheets of copper and sacks of cobalt hydroxide, essential for electric vehicles and other 21st-century technologies. Their drivers must pay ...

The Kabilas’ involvement in the toll road came to light through the biggest leak ever of financial documents from Africa.