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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some cases, industrial mines dump tons of stone and dirt beyond their compounds. Mr Kara describes in his book how he witnessed hundreds of children crouching in the rubble, picking for cobalt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He exhorted that foreign corporations to change their business practices, saying “Stop choking Africa ... that at least 25,000 children are working in cobalt mines in the DRC, a number that ...

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 ...