A few steps away, Marie Samba tends to her hens and quails, her hand dusted with feed rather than cobalt residue. A former ...

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will launch this month new monitoring and tracing mechanisms to tackle child labour in cobalt and copper production, a mines ministry official said on Thursday ...

The IBA’s news release noted that the war in the DRC has lasted for over three decades. Per the United Nations (UN), the DRC ...

The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families, Congolese ...

A new documentary looked at ways to reduce the human and environmental harms stemming from the mining of "critical minerals." ...

Child labourers in Africa are being rebranded as 'artisanal miners' – it's time for the West to stop ignoring modern slavery ...

The deal while hailed internationally as offering a big breakthrough for the Great Lakes Region, tells just half the story of American geopolitics.

Generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are hailed as some of the most disruptive innovations in recent memory, promising – or already delivering – sweeping gains across countless fields. But ...

Color me cynical, but every day brings fresh reminders that the very people who most loudly proclaim their love for suffering humanity tend to have a not-so-well-hidden agenda. Scratch the surface, ...