A year later, the Spanish government has definitively approved the first action plan for the sustainable management of mineral raw materials for the period 2026-2030, linked to a public investment of 414 million euros. This plan includes, among other things, the first mineral exploration program approved in fifty years, endowed with 182 million euros, whose main objective is to search for critical minerals, such as rare earth elements, both in new deposits and in spoil heaps or existing mines in Spain, as explained by Sara Aagesen, Ecologist in Action, at a press conference this Tuesday.

"I am no longer in Goma since my employment. I am ready to spend some time away from my family and loved ones," explains Steward Muhindo, a Congolese researcher, to ARA. The troops of the M23, the guerrilla group that has been operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2012, They occupied Goma at the end of JanuaryThis is a key moment in their latest campaign against the Congolese government, which has been underway since March 2022 and has allowed them to consolidate their dominance of territories rich in gold, coltan and other natural resources.