DR Congo’s faltering fight against illegal cobalt

DR Congo's faltering fight against illegal cobalt mines | AFP

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Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in southeastern DR Congo, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth. The huge pit in Shabara, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Kolwezi, is home to cobalt – a strategic metal found…

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