And the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Congo for short, is the king of cobalt ... injuries among the countless children working in small-scale, hand-dug mines, often in manually carved tunnels ...

How many children are involved ... and infrastructure deal in exchange for access to several copper-cobalt mines in the Congo. And that opened the door, that opened the floodgates, and then ...

Among his videos is one of two children, covered in toxic chemicals from the mine, smashing their ... ongoing search for other cobalt resources around the world. Congo's cobalt reserves tower ...

China is exploiting children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, forcing them to work under hazardous conditions to mine the cobalt that powers electronic devices and electric cars ...

Almost 75% of global production comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo - where there are also children toiling away in the mines. Cobalt is a component in batteries for cell phones ...

In recent days, US lawmakers and international experts have warned that President Donald Trump ’s proposed ...

Author Siddharth Kara is sounding the alarm on a growing human rights issue in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... including children, laboring in cobalt mines for ...

In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

Children who work in the mines are often drugged ... These days, most of the cobalt in southern Congo comes from industrial mines, which are largely owned by Chinese companies.

KINSHASA, (June 12, 2024) – Children working in some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) cobalt mines are getting support to trade their tools for textbooks to escape from dangerous and even ...

The researchers interviewed 17 children at five mines where they said children ... It denied to Reuters that CDM or Huayou Cobalt were in its supply chain. Congo's supply of the metals such ...

Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a booming industry that ... Humanitarian groups are concerned that these workers are often children spending their formative years hauling ...