What exploitation looks like in Africa: Cobalt Mine in Congo DR

[RARI_Godwind]

Double.

 

[Cakebatter]

The main mineral used to power electric batteries for companies like Tesla.

Think of all the cell phones, smartwatches, cameras, portable speakers, Nintendo Switches, etc that all use Li-ion batteries that you've owned over the years . No one's hands are clean.

 

[Sir ZDuke]

This is so nutz to me. If it was up to me, I’ll put every single individual that has profited off of this to the sword.

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[Amo Husserl]

Got to educate and empower your population. But the leaders only concerned with their own bank account.

Colonialism gripping them like slavery grip us.
Education is the key, but when you been locked outta so many avenues to get ahead; colonialism gripping them like slavery grip us.

 

[CopiousX]

With no machinery, because it takes an education to understand how to run, manage and maintain that machinery. With an education and machinery they’d know the value of their work. With education, machinery and knowledge of their worth they wouldn’t be fcking doing this sht


This whole White Supremacists economic model runs on cruelty and always will.

It's more complex than this. Its what I was referring to above your post. Official mines in govt controlled areas and ran by multinationals look like this....

Those are Congolese in those machines. And over 70% of conglose cobalt mines are official and have the support of multinational white companies. Daily mail is showing you the loud outlier of the 30% of illegal mines that both western interests and domestic interests are trying to stop. A number which has been decreasing drastically since the early 00s.

Do you see all that industrial machinery? Do you see the absence of women and children digging for toxic elements with their bare hands? This is what it should be like.








The fckery with the guerilla groups is the cause of what you saw in that daily mail video above. And it occurs in places the central govt doesn't control. The guerilla groups are funding their guerilla wars by gathering women and children and critically poor men and forcing them to work in those mines. It is further compounded by the fact that normal Congolese cannot do traditional farming due to the conflict which has also stolen land from locals who are destitute.


I'd venture to say that these guerilla groups are the true problem here. I'd compare them to when Isis took over the middle east and started putting slaves to work in oil fields to fund their war or when the pirates in somalia (or alshabab terrorists ) did a very similar thing to fund their illicit activities or even what south American cartels we're doing with villagers and cocaine in the 80s and 90s in Colombia. Just like these other three instances, I think western meddling may have started these issues, but they are not what is perpetuating them currently, it is these few opportunistic warlords who are the cuase.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Africans exploiting other Africans.

Cry about it or do something about it.​

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

from my understanding, the central govt doesnt control that part of congo. Id compare it to the chaos in haiti or somalia currently.

You cant even impose laws if random guerilla fighters control the mine (most of them are in eastern DRC) and are holding the people hostage. Allegedly, random people(women and children) are being kidnapped by these guerrilla groups and brought to the mine , where their wages are funding the conflict of their guerilla captors.

The folks staffing for the multinationals are also in cahoots with the kidnappers, though in recent years the US firms have tried to do the staffing themselves in a semi-ethical manner.

Yep. Primary reason for the quasi civil war there. Sponsored by competing MNCs