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From Mine Shafts to Classrooms: How a Cobalt Mining Town is Reclaiming Childhood and Rebuilding Hope
A few steps away, Marie Samba tends to her hens and quails, her hand dusted with feed rather than cobalt residue. A former ...
Gertler, a ‘King’ in Congo, Describes Mine Payments in Arbitration Testimony
Billionaire Dan Gertler’s confidential arbitration testimony describes how he paid an associate of Congo’s former president, ...
Inside the Congolese mine vital to mobile phones, as rebels give BBC rare access
M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...
EU biofuel projects in the ‘breadbasket of Congo’ could threaten food security, investigation finds
The company claims it is using ‘degraded lands’, but Congo is in dire need of more homegrown food according to the UN. View ...
Elon Musk is bringing broadband to Congo — right after ravaging its health care
During a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Globe reporter learned how the billionaire is bringing broadband to ...
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Eastern DR Congo: The tree and the forest, peace beyond a single story
The Imaginary Tree that Hides a Forest Despite being nearly 80 times smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda is often blamed for the instability and poverty that characterize ...