2017: Morgan Stanley projects 1 billion electric vehicles in use globally by 2050 and 800% increase in demand for cobalt, used in electric car batteries, by 2026.[1]
February 2017 - Glencore agreed to pay Dan Gertler $534m (£407m) for his share of their joint mining interests in DR Congo.[2]
14 February 2017 – The UN reveals that Congolese soldiers had killed 101 people including 30 women while fighting the Kamwina Nsapu rebels in Kasaï-Central.[3]
July 2017 - United Nations has documented 80 mass graves in Kasai unrest that began in August 2016[4]
7 August 2017 -Congolese soldiers forces killed at least 14 Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) rebels in clashes in the capital Kinshasa and southwestern city of Matadi.A policeman also died.[5]
29 August 2017 – Three provinces have a second round of voting as part of the gubernatorial elections.
6 November 2017 - details emerge in Paradise Papers reporting of a loan from Glencore to Dan Gertler in 2008 when it needed to renegotiate its agreement with state mining company Gécamines for its Katanga mine.[2]
^ROB NIKOLEWSKI (February 22, 2018). "Electric vehicles' future relies on cobalt. It's often mined by children and is soaring in price". Los Angeles Times.
^ ab"Paradise Papers documents raise questions over African mining deal". BBC Panorama. BBC. 6 November 2017.
^"UN: Soldiers kill 101 in clashes with Kamwina Nsapu".
^Caritas (8 November 2017). "Keeping watch in Kasai in Congo". ReliefWeb.
^"Congo security forces kill at least 14 in rebel clashes: Clashes followed attack by BDK members on Kinshasa's main prison and protests by other members against President Kabila". Al-Jazeera.
^Cobalt: A Metal Poised to Peak (Report). Stratfor. January 8, 2018. Archived from the original on March 1, 2018.
^Rob Nikolewski (March 1, 2018). "The electric vehicle revolution has a cobalt problem". San Diego Union-Tribune.
^Ross, Aaron (2 February 2017). "Congo's main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, dies at 84". Reuters. Retrieved 5 February 2017.