CMOC increased cobalt production by 13% to 61,073 tonnes in the first half of 2025. • The DRC extended its cobalt export ban, forcing CMOC to stockpile while adapting. • CMOC maintains its 2025 cobalt ...

China’s CMOC Group produced more cobalt at its two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the first half of this year, despite the African nation’s ban on exports. The world’s largest ...

She noted mining has also led to widespread deforestation and toxic pollution. The film, "CRITICAL MINERALS: Creating a Just & Sustainable Clean Energy Transition," will be screened at the Social and ...

Peace deals are often announced with handshakes, photo ops, smiles, and celebratory headlines. They are moments of spectacle ...

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 ...

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

A U.S.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic ...

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

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 ...

While leaders hail a recent peace deal between Rwanda and the DR Congo as a diplomatic breakthrough, observers say ...