What I Saw in DR Congo: How the War for Cobalt Destroys Millions of Lives
Rania Khalek- “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”
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.
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