Once prosperous and pretty, one Kolwezi neighbourhood, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is now almost completely destroyed, separated from a sprawling open-cast pit by a concrete barrier. The Chinese-owned cobalt mine next door wants to expand, and many of Mutombo's fellow residents have taken buy-outs.

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