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 ...

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 ...

Yet even industrial mining can be hazardous. In interviews, 36 current and former employees at nine of Congo’s industrial cobalt mines described the dangerous work done every day.

Released this week and entitled, “Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Addressing Root Causes of Human Rights Abuses,” the paper is co-published by the NYU Stern Center for ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s largest cobalt producer, has extended its export ban on cobalt by another three months. The decision, aimed at strengthening the country’s influence ...

River water near some of Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest copper and cobalt mines is toxic and may be causing widespread health problems. Scientists from Congo’s University of Lubumbashi ...

FIArtisanal miners work at Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 11, 2016.

CMOC’s Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine has suspended all exports, logistics companies were told in a notice seen by Reuters late on Saturday, complying with demands by a court-appointed ...

Cobalt is a metal that produces a blue pigment. It's essential for making many of the batteries powering phones, computers, and electric vehicles, but mining it is linked to human rights abuses.

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show." ...

US-China Metals Fight Finds New Home in Congo's Cobalt Mines. In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday The ...