The Real Rebels in Africa: How Multinational Companies Fuel Conflict in DRC and Beyond!
By Youngerson Matete On September 11, 2025, I found myself on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, visiting what used to be a thriving salt mining community. What I encountered there was not only shocking but also a powerful metaphor for the broader exploitation of Africa by multinational corporations disguised as investors to locals. The land was confiscated violently by “foreign investors” who turned it into a mine, extracting wealth with reckless abandon. Although the locals managed to reclaim their land after years of fighting against foreign companies who had hired militias resulting in the death of many young people and women, with Margaret Kuwornu, a pregnant woman who was shot dead by the company security losing her life and unborn baby. She has become the symbol of both resistance and martyrdom in the community with her statue standing as a shrine in the village square. What the locals have inherited now is hardly usable. A devastated environment that bears no crop or liv...