Lubumbashi

While voting in Lubumbashi, opposition candidate Katumbi asked the population to stay at polling stations and monitor results until the end.

While voting in Lubumbashi, Katumbi asked the population to stay at polling stations and monitor the results until the end.

The legal action on Monday, by the Commercial Court of Lubumbashi, came after the country’s state-owned mining enterprise had sought the removal of the mine’s Chinese management.

Beijing’s burgeoning economic might has contributed to an infrastructure boom across the continent, in cities such as Djibouti; Luanda, Angola; and Lubumbashi, Congo.

Lubumbashi is a mining town rich in esoteric minerals, but its citizens have vastly unequal access to the kinds of technology, like high-efficiency light bulbs, that their extracted wealth is used to produce.