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Muyej on, 241–42
Minor Metal Traders Association, 71
miombo, 28
Misa Mining, 158
MIT, 79
Mizushima, Koichi, 80
MMG
schools built by, 255–56
Zhou and, 254–55
MNC. See Congolese National Movement
Mobutu, Joseph-Désiré, 46, 69, 71–72, 88, 127–28
China and, 54, 56
defeat of, 100–101
fall of, 122
Kufi Kilanga and, 53–54, 55–56, 124
Luba-Kasai purged by, 88–89
on Machiavelli, 55
mass executions performed by, 51–52
overthrow of, 115
power consolidation of, 53–54
response to critics of, 57
Union Minière and, 53–54
United States supporting, 88
Moffett, James “Jim Bob,” 266, 268–70
Mohammed VI (King), xiii, 306, 309
Monderer, Samie, 163
Mongabay, 328–29
monopsonies, 336
Mopani mine, 156
moral lines, 202
Morocco, 302
electric vehicle industry in, 311–12
phosphate in, 306
Trump on, 310
Western Sahara and, 306–7
Morowali, 183, 245
Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP)
coal use by, 250
development of, 249
pollution from, 250–51
Sadip on, 245, 249–50
Mosaic, 310
Mossad, 132
Motorola, 110
Motorola MicroTAC Elite, 92
Mpisi, Jean, 200, 206
Mpolo, Maurice, 46
MPR. See Popular Movement of the Revolution
Mputu, Trésor, 18, 27, 33–34, 221, 224, 336–37
Mputu, Yannick, 27, 221, 223, 336–37
Msiri (King), xiii, 30–32, 42, 373, 376
Mugabe, Robert, 128
Mukelekele, Thierry, 169
Mukondo, 172
Mukong, Billy, 20
Mulele, Pierre, 51, 52–53
death of, 54
MUMI. See Mutanda Mining
Mung, Emmanuel Ma, 230
Munongo, Mwenda Bantu Kaneranera Godefroid, Jr., 374
Murata, 260
Murray, Charles J., 91
Musahati, Lisman, 327
Musasizi, Paul Isaac, 350
Musenero, Monica, 350
Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta, 349
on Kiira EV, 351
Musk, Elon, xiii, 2, 7, 62–63, 104, 145, 279, 320
on BYD, 193
on child labor, 3
critics of, 12–13
online fans of, 142
on tariffs, 314
Tesla and, 143–44, 148
Trump and, 3, 13
Musompo, 217–21
Mutanda Mining (MUMI), 155, 173–74, 275
Mutanda ya Mukonkota, 154–56
Muteba, Zanga, 222–23, 238
Mutindi, Catherine, 219
Mutoshi superpit, 25
formalization schemes at, 335
Mutumba, Antoine, 227, 230, 232, 336–37, 346
Muyej Mangez Mans, Richard, xiii, 24, 226, 229–30, 237, 286
on economy, 241
on Kabila, 241
on mining industry, 241–42
Mwaant Yav, 41
Mwamba, Nkongolo, 29
Mwana Nanga, Mawampanga, 117, 118
Mwenda M’Siri, Godefroid Munongo, 42
N
Naipaul, V. S., 55
National Development and Reform Commission, 52
nationalism
African, 43–44
Chinese, 279
Nawezi, Ady, 231
Nawiji, Norbert, 218, 221
on creuseurs, 154
Naxxar, 176
N’djili Airport, 343
Ndondo Kakule, Vuko, 352
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 137
Netherlands, 185–86
new-energy revolution, 376–77
New York City, 75
The New York Times, 192–93, 224
NGO Global Witness, 207
Ngoie Tshibambe, Germain, 230, 235–36
Ngoy Mwanabute, Serge Noël, 243
nickel, 1, 23, 245–46, 310, 316
demand for, 181
Harita Group producing, 328–29
in Indonesia, 182–83, 245–46, 322–23
on Obi Islands, 326
price of, 246, 305
waste from production of, 328–29
Nikanor, 206, 274
Glencore and, 163–64
Ningde, 248
Nissan FEV-II, 93–94
Nixon, Richard M., 59
EPA founding by, 356
Nkrumah, Kwame, 43
Nkuwimba, Willy, 48, 338–39, 344–45, 348
NMC battery. See lithium nickel manganese cobalt battery
Nobel Peace Prize, 303
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 35, 81, 91, 93
Nobeoka, 84, 90
Nokia, 110
Norbert (child worker), 216
North Korea, 130
Nsala, 366
nuclear fusion, 370
Numbi, John, 169, 286
artisanal mining and, 287–88
Ross and, 287–88
Nvidia, 40
Nyindu, Edouard, 56
O
Obama, Barack, 180, 270, 291
Obi Islands, 325
nickel on, 326
pollution on, 329
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 15
Och-Ziff, 172, 209
oil, 2
prices, 296
Okito, Joseph, 46
ONE. See Our Next Energy
One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 319–20
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 24, 296
Our Next Energy (ONE), 149, 310
Ijaz on mission of, 318
IRA credits and, 320–21
results of, 315
Outerbridge, Tom, 75–76
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 265
Oxford, 304
P
Pact (NGO), 335
Pamoja, 214
child labor in, 215–18
Panasonic, 109–10, 259
passports, 340
Pentecostalism, 27
People’s Palace, 56
Perriello, Tom, 270, 291
Pertamina, 322, 323–24
Peterson Institute for International Economics, 196, 256
Phelps Dodge, 170, 264, 265, 266, 267
phosphate, 1, 269–70, 304. See also lithium iron phosphate
in lithium-ion batteries, 303
in Morocco, 306
refinement, 311–12
in Western Sahara, 306, 326–27
Pilling, David, 93
Pitron, Guillaume, 260
Planté, Gaston, 60, 76
Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, 153–54, 171
plug-in electric hybrid cars, 350
pluralism, 56
Polisario Front, 302–3, 305–6, 309
pollution
from electric vehicles, 13–14
from IMIP, 250–51
in Indonesia, 251–52
in Kawasi, 330
from nickel production, 328–29
on Obi Islands, 329
political attention to, in U.S., 59–60
from Tesla vehicles, 13–14
polyacetyle-LCO battery, Yoshino designing, 83–84
pombeiros, 30
Pop, Ramona, 144, 145
Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR), 57
Port of Lobito, 68
potassium, 65
poverty, Zhou on, 257
power, geopolitical, centralization of, 8–9
The Powerhouse (LeVine), 179
Prince, Erik, 298
Prince Léopold Mine, 119
Prussian blue, 372
PT Weda Bay Nickel, 327
public-private partnerships, in DRC, 87
Putin, Vladimir, 296
Pweto, 85
Q
Qing court, 370
quasi-solid-state batteries, 371
Quirk, Kathleen L., 268–69
R
racism, in DRC, 229, 230
Radio France Internationale, 242, 345
Radio Okapi, 225, 287
Rahmi, Anie, 329
RAID. See Rights and Accountability in Development
Ramat Gan Diamond Center, 131
range anxiety, 315
rare earth metals, prices of, 260
Rash, Raymond, 58
Rathi, Akshat, 193, 197–98
Rautenbach, Billy, 120, 128, 153
Reagan, Ronald, 59, 63, 77
recycling, Frederickson on, 360
Red Rock Resources, 298
Redwood Materials, 359–60
Reich, Robert, 81
Reichard, Paul, 30
resource curse, 373
Reuters, 108, 259
Rhodes, Cecil, 368
Rice, Condoleezza, 135
Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), 273, 274
the Roadster (car), 148, 192
launch of, 350
Romney, Mitt, 179
Ross, Aaron, Numbi and, 287–88
Royal Air Maroc, 309
Royal Dutch Shell, 322
rubber plantations, 367
Russia, 246
Russian Military Brotherhood, 131
Ruund, 243
Rwanda, 4, 128, 133
DRC and, 134–35
peace accords, 135
Rwandan genocide, 100–101
S
Sadip (Indonesian farmer), 182, 187
on IMIP, 245, 249–50
Sahidi, Sahlun, 252
Sahlas, Peter, 6
Sahrawis, 303
SAIC. See Shanghai Aircraft Industrial Corporation
Salmon-Challis National Forest, 358
Samos (island), 215
Samsung, 108, 109
Samsung Galaxy Note 7, 91
