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Lawsuit alert: Allegedly Tesla uses child labor to mine precious metals
As Tesla sales tank, it’s not exactly the best time for the automaker to receive more bad press. However, Tesla faces a ...
Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...
DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...
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Middlemen siphon billions from war-ravaged DRC’s cobalt, coltan trade
Middlemen and local militias steal billions from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) cobalt and coltan trade, fuelling conflict and leaving the nation poor, according to a political analyst.
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What role do minerals and tech firms play in the DRC conflict?
The conflict between Rwanda-backed forces and the Democratic Republic of Congo is often presented as a struggle to control ...
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Cobalt and anti-blackness: The war DR Congo can't escape
All eyes are on AFCON in Morocco, but content creators from DR Congo are using the tournament to talk about the deadly war ...
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DRC: History Is Repeating Itself In Lubumbashi As The World Scrambles For Minerals To Go Green
Like copper and uranium before it, cobalt mining has been linked to widescale exploitation and child labour . Corruption and elite capture remain defining features of mining in the DRC.
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Congo-Kinshasa: History Is Repeating Itself in Lubumbashi As the World Scrambles for Minerals to Go Green
on the extraction of cobalt in the DRC before it is shipped, mainly to China. Cobalt is extracted as a byproduct of copper mining. Artisanal and small-scale mining and child labour remain a salient ...