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Nicolas Niarchos

Nicolas Niarchos is a journalist whose work focuses on energy, war and migration. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation and The New York Times. He has testified on the effects of Congolese battery metal mining on Capitol Hill. His work on…

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Nicolas Niarchos is a journalist whose work focuses on energy, war and migration. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation and The New York Times. He has testified on the effects of Congolese battery metal mining on Capitol Hill. His work on mining in Indonesia was shortlisted for a 2024 Livingston Award. In 2023, he won an Edward R. Murrow Award for a radio report from Ukraine for The New Yorker and WNYC.

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Digging into Congo

Digging into Congo

In an excerpt from his new book, Nicolas Niarchos examines how China and the Democratic Republic of Congo negotiated an infrastructure-for-commodities agreement involving two large Chinese state-owned enterprises and unlikely private sector partner.