This text is an unofficial translation by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

SOMIKA [Société minière du Katanga] is submitting to the results of laboratory tests to shed light soon on the quality of the dewatering water at its open-pit mine in Lupoto, its officials said after a mixed raid of civil society, local press and an expert from the University of Lubumbashi in two villages surrounding its site located in Lupoto, about 25 km from Lubumbashi. An initiative to respond to the accusations made against the company by the PODEFIP platform working in the field of decentralization and public finances and which described SOMIKA as a repeat offender in pollution...

The Resource Centre invited SOMIKA to respond to the allegation of pollution. It responded. The response is linked below (only in French).