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The Back End of Genocide : How the Rush for Congo’s Cobalt is Killing Thousands
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The fact that you have other African countries throwing their lot in to get these resources makes it that much worse.
They are up against businesses, Western and local countries. In addition to internal problems.
SMH.
Unless they get protection from a bigger power to help clean all that up, it's just going to continue.
The lack of humanity in this world is no longer surprising, but it is consistently disappointing.
They are up against businesses, Western and local countries. In addition to internal problems.
SMH.
Unless they get protection from a bigger power to help clean all that up, it's just going to continue.
The lack of humanity in this world is no longer surprising, but it is consistently disappointing.
Humans are humans. If you lived next to a countries with vast resource wealth and no one standing guard most of us would loot and pillage for a dollar. That is the human condition. Bleeding hearts aside. It will never change. Congos neighbors are less adept at fixing the issue for them and short term everyone is exploiting that country for as long as it is in chaos. If mexico was severely underdeveloped with no centralized army Americans would be running in there talking what they want on some lawless shyt.This really also shows you that Africa is complicit in all thistheir leaders are fine selling out.
Long term it benefits all of Africa for Congo to get their shyt together but until they do the world is in a race to rape them for resources. Everyone.. Black white, Asian. It's. A free for all. The Europeans that destabilized that country knew exactly what they did. It worked out even better than having a puppet government as far as exploiting goes.
Capitalism runs the world.. when money became God this was the only way things would go. Picture a wealthy country with open borders and you don't even have a government to enact trade deals property. You can just walk across their borders and take shyt. What incentives does any business minded entity have to play the game fair in this scenario? We placed value on the wrong things and it created a catch 22 environment. If you are the neighboring counties and you see everyone going over there getting their hands full of loot running out you will probably end up doing the same. For as long as you can until you have to actually pay fair prices for resources.
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This is literally the worst geopolitical issue that is happening on the planet today. With all due respect to what is going on in Gaza, this is infinitely worse and doesn't get talked about at all because the Western world is profiting from Cobalt. The global market size for cobalt is USD 16bn and 70% of it comes from Congo - one of the poorest countries in the world. And that's only one of the vast amounts of minerals the country possesses.
We are talking 6m lives lost due to greed and corruption on an unprecedented scale..
We are talking 6m lives lost due to greed and corruption on an unprecedented scale..
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Agree with you. In the Western Hemisphere things are framed by race because of history and social realities. So we tend to think of things in terms of race, including conflicts over resources.
This gets complicated when the topic turns to conflicts between people of the same race, but different ethnic, political, religious, or nationalities. Wars and conflicts on the continent are sometimes harder for some to wrap their heads around.
We're used to viewing wars/violence through a colonizer vs indigenous/oppressed lens.
But like you pointed out, conflict over resources has existed as long as humans have existed. Land grabs, pillaging of resources, border disputes, etc unfortunately are still going on. As they go in some of the developing world.
Members here from Haiti, Nigeria, and Ethiopia have covered and given context to recent/current internal conflicts that have helped us to understand those situations better.
Agree with you. In the Western Hemisphere things are framed by race because of history and social realities. So we tend to think of things in terms of race, including conflicts over resources.
This gets complicated when the topic turns to conflicts between people of the same race, but different ethnic, political, religious, or nationalities. Wars and conflicts on the continent are sometimes harder for some to wrap their heads around.
We're used to viewing wars/violence through a colonizer vs indigenous/oppressed lens.
But like you pointed out, conflict over resources has existed as long as humans have existed. Land grabs, pillaging of resources, border disputes, etc unfortunately are still going on. As they go in some of the developing world.
Members here from Haiti, Nigeria, and Ethiopia have covered and given context to recent/current internal conflicts that have helped us to understand those situations better.
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10/28/24
Why isn't the DR Congo the world's richest country? – DW – 10/28/2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo could be one of the wealthiest countries in the world. But its reserves of coltan, cobalt and gold have brought misery and conflict. And your smartphone plays a part in this story, too.
www.dw.com
