Artisanal mining means these tens of thousands of children, hundreds of thousands of people, scrounging at the ground with pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar or their bare hands to pull cobalt ...

After revelations of child labor and treacherous ... mines in the country’s three largest cobalt mining towns. Houreld is The Washington Post’s East Africa bureau chief, based in Nairobi ...

and five representatives of child laborers who were killed in cobalt mining operations, the ruling said. The miners were "recruited as children to engage in dangerous mining operations and ...

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 ...

South Africa’s minister of mines has approved ... North Kivu and South Kivu. Children working at a cobalt mine in Kailo Territory, DRC. Thousands of children between the ages of 7 and 14 miss ...

Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a booming industry that is putting a lot of citizens to work, as something like 70 percent of the world’s cobalt comes from the African ...

Almost 75% of global production comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where child labor ... in Central Africa. Kolwezi is known as the country's cobalt capital. Industrial mines, like ...

Cobalt mines in DRC supply Apple ... 30 from some of the largest mines in Africa tell a different story. The heartbreaking scenes show barefoot children covered in chemicals as they carry heavy ...

The tech giants were found not liable for forced labor in Congo's cobalt mines. LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of ...

KINSHASA: Cobalt used in batteries for phones, laptops and electric vehicles could come from mines in Democratic Republic of Congo that use child labour, an Amnesty International report said on ...

It's laughable that any of these practices are preventing child labor, especially when Tesla's cobalt supply is getting mixed in with the output from dozens of area mines. Kamoto Copper Co. is the ...