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Nicolas Niarchos is a journalist and writer. He is working on a book about battery minerals and where they come from. (December 2023)
In Congo’s Cobalt Mines
The lucrative mining industry is unscrupulous, environmentally disastrous, and a linchpin of Congo’s economy. How can it be reformed?
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by Siddharth Kara
Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Addressing Root Causes of Human Rights Abuses
a report by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo
by Christoph N. Vogel
Eating the Congo: Unveiling State Governance of Copper and Cobalt Mining in Former Katanga
by Claude Iguma Wakenge
The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo
by James H. Smith
December 7, 2023 issue
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