Imagine it is 2023. After decades of campaigning, partnership programmes, market influence, consumer awareness, and private sector support, the Congo has an ethical minerals trade and a diversified economy. But let us backtrack to 2013. A human rights expert recently said that the mining industry is in the "middle of the next leap of accountability." However, accountability depends on its sister concept, transparency. The expert - a stakeholder of a mining super-major - desires greater transparency of the grass-roots 'difficult stuff that happens to companies.
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