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

Dela wa Monga, an artisanal miner, holds a cobalt stone at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct. 12, 2022. Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images Sturmes said he ...

Yet the cobalt that helps power them and other technology comes with serious humanitarian concerns where it’s mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These mines have been the subject ...

This cobalt can come at a high human price. Seven years ago, revelations about dire working conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into the world’s headlines after Amnesty ...

For now, the fighting is far from the copper and cobalt mines in Congo’s southeast, where there are industrial mining operations run by the likes of China’s CMOC Group, the world’s biggest ...

KAWAMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - JUNE 8: A worker descends into a copper and cobalt mine in ... More Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is used in the batteries for electric cars ...

"The first time I heard about the impacts of cobalt mining in Congo was from a TikTok [video]," Ms Ndango, who lives in the United States, tells the BBC. "After watching that TikTok I did my own ...

Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at a cobalt mine near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, in October 2022. Scott: Wow. And you write about some of the organizers here in the United States ...

China's CMOC Group, the world's top cobalt mining company, called on Democratic Republic of Congo last week to lift a ban on ...

they will all say supply chains are ethical but then you go to the Congo and you see it’s not true." Tesla, in 2020, closed a deal with Glencore, a Canadian mining company that runs a cobalt and ...

Democratic Republic of Congo ... du Cobalt, or EGC, is now the only entity allowed to export so-called artisanal cobalt, according to new regulations signed by the prime minister and mines ...