Kivu - Album

Young, overqualified engineer François Daans thinks he is ready for his first mission to the Congo. He's well aware that the price of coltan, an ore indispensible to our modern technologies, is at the root of the bloody exploitation of the Kivu province. There, though, his path crosses that of Violette, 12, survivor of a massacre. The young man holds on to his humanitarian convictions and refuses to turn her over to the same local militias he's supposed to sign an agreement with.
Now he will learn that in Kivu, humanitarianism is as worthless as human life. And that convictions are paid for with real bullets ... In Kivu, the ground is full of coltan. Multinational businessmen, mercenaries and militiamen don't hesitate to sacrifice men, women and children on the altar of profit to lay claim to this wealth — leaving it up to a few heroes such as Dr Mukwege to repair what can still be fixed ...
He was awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.