Cobalt, gold, coltan… the Congolese subsoil is full of immense wealth. The discovery of a new gold deposit in the east of the country has led hundreds of people to settle in this region in the hope of finding a few grams of the yellow metal.
The discovery of a gold mine in Luhihi, a village in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has raised a lot of hope among the Congolese population, the majority of whom live on $ 1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. The diggers are willing to take many risks and put their lives in danger to harvest the precious metal. But for some, this discovery is a real environmental disaster and anger begins to mount in part of the population.
12 photos taken in Luhihi by Guerchom Ndebo illustrate this point