"Protesters marched along London's Bond Street on Friday, accusing major luxury brands of complicity in human rights abuses and resource exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Footage shows demonstrators waving Congolese flags and rallying outside Cartier, Apple, Tiffany & Co. and Pandora, holding placards and banners reading 'Stop exploitation of Congo, Sudan and Palestine. Shop ethically', 'Justice for the DRC, 'Blood on your hands!' and 'Apple, what's inside my phone?' "We are here, outside, protesting a different variety of shops that have all committed to funding a genocide, so here we are outside Tiffany and Co, who are stealing mines for jewellery in Congo," explained a protester, adding, "We have to start up against this. This is not right." "So many innocent civilians have been killed in Congo by the rebels and the complicity of the governments. So we have to make these people aware of what has happened," he persisted, linking the violence to global demand for Congo's illicitly extracted minerals. It comes after the Congolese government and the Congo River Alliance, including the M23, endorsed the Doha Framework for Peace in Qatar on November 15 – a nonbinding plan proposing renewed talks on state authority, governance and disarmament as groundwork for a broader peace deal. The agreements follow years of conflict in North and South Kivu, forcing around 7 million residents to flee. DRC has consistently accused Rwanda of backing the M23 armed group – allegations that Kigali firmly denies."