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Families in the DRC increasingly rely on children working in cobalt mines — report

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | July 16, 2023 | 8:29 am Battery Metals Africa Cobalt 

Families in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have become dependent on the income produced by their children working in cobalt mines, a new report by Canadian NGO IMPACT: Transforming Natural Resources Management states. The DRC...

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