Thirteen-year-old Beni Cial Yumba Musoya used to spend her days scavenging for cobalt under the scorching sun in the artisanal mines of Kolwezi. Today, she dreams of donning a white coat and saving ...

China is exploiting children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, forcing them to work under hazardous conditions to mine the cobalt that powers electronic devices and electric cars, witnesses ...

No industrial tools. Not even a hard hat. The risk of a cave-in is constant. The world's soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous ...

About 60 percent of the world’s cobalt originates in the Congo, where hand-dug mines rife with dangers attract legions of poorly equipped “artisanal” miners who work for as little as $2 a day.

The 2016 report from Amnesty International cited estimates from UNICEF that about 40,000 boys and girls work in mines across Congo, many of them at cobalt sites.

Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a ...

The government of Congo is trying to clean up cobalt mining in the country. Here’s the backstory. ... But regular people, and sometimes children, also grab a pickax and start digging.

Samsung has been less specific about what it is doing. When it was criticised in 2016 by Amnesty for sourcing its cobalt from the DRC, it promised to investigate."We will share the report of ...

Tech giants Apple, Samsung and Sony are among the firms that may be using minerals mined by African children as young as 7 in their products, Amnesty International announced Tuesday.

Some 40,000 children in Congo work in cobalt mines, according to 2014 estimates from the United Nations Children's Fund. "The level of unemployment is extremely high," said Cristina Duranti, ...

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