DR Congo, a central African country, is the world's main source of cobalt, a key component of the lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones, electric vehicles and many models of e-cigarette.

After revelations of child labor and treacherous conditions in many cobalt mines, automakers and mineral companies said they would adhere to international safety standards The Shabara artisanal ...

(Last year, Siddarth Kara, a professor at the University of Nottingham, published "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives," an exposé about the abysmal labor practices in the ...

Last book you read? “Cobalt Red,” about cobalt mining in the Congo and child slave labor, horrific conditions. In politics, ...

DUNGU, Democratic Republic of Congo—A truck carrying Indian UN peacekeepers trundles along the red dirt roads of Luvungi ... India in the mining of copper, cobalt and industrial diamonds.

"The water from the river is undrinkable now, it's so contaminated, and the sea, that is usually clear blue, turns red when it ... in Chinese-owned cobalt mines in DR Congo. The 48-year-old ...

Home to almost 60% of Africa’s population, the Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) region is geographically, culturally, and economically diverse and comprises 26 countries stretching from the Red ...

However, a shift in investor appetite for coal means the company will stay in one piece, and the steelmaking coal mines acquired through the $6.9bn (£5.3bn) Teck Resources (US:TECK) deal will be added ...

At a May investor meeting, chief executive Elon Musk promised to place a webcam at a Congo cobalt mine but ignored ... “There are just red lines Tesla cannot cross because of that.

In a prestigious ceremony held at Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany on October 10, Italian-born photographer Davide ...

Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has perpetuated human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the guise of ...

Don't Chase China's FOMO Rally Chinese stocks have gone from ice-cold to red-hot in a matter ... to Challenge China's Cobalt Chokehold Talks over mining company Chemaf in Congo are part of a ...