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What I Saw in DR Congo: How the War for Cobalt Destroys Millions of Lives
The death toll continues to climb in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as fighting escalates between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda. The decades-long conflict has killed approximately six million people and displaced millions more.
Akilimali Chomachoma, a journalist covering the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central Africa based in the DRC, explains the reality in the country amid the ongoing conflict.
“The women [mining] those minerals don’t have any money… They can’t even have a telephone in the country which gives the whole world the possibility to use telephone and computer”
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