TheAltWorld What I Saw in DR Congo: How the War for Cobalt Destroys Millions of Lives
- Rania Khalek
- Tuesday 18 Jun 24
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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”
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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