It goes back further than this. From April 16, 1997:
HOPE, Arkansas, April 16/CNW-PRN/ - Mr. Michael McMurrough, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Mineral Fields Inc. is pleased to announce that he has been advised this morning by AMF staff on the ground in Lumbumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (aka Zaire)(”Congo”) that AMF has been awarded by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Kolwezi tailings recovery project....
Also Secretary of Energy Hazel O’Leary who was accused of accepting a donation of $25,000 to her favorite charity in exchange for a face-to-face meeting with Congolese officials did not rate a special prosecutor.
In 1948 91.2% of US uranium concentrate came from the Shinkolobe mines in the Congo