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Uranium is the basic raw material of both civilian and military nuclear programmes. A mine in DR Congo's southern province of Katanga supplied the uranium that was used in the atomic bombs that were dropped by the Americans on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

To thank and reward DR Congo, the Americans funded the creation of DR Congo's nuclear centre in 1958. It was established on the university campus and only for research purpose. But in the late 1970s, a bar of uranium disappeared from the centre, raising concern about security at the site.

Moreover, the site of the centre is facing some erosion problems. And people fear a landslide that could lead to a wider disaster, our reporter says. In recent years, the IAEA has visited the centre and security was believed to have improved.