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Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006. For photographs, resources and additional reporting by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele on the DRC visit: http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=17
10 October 2001 As the high tech age takes over more and more of our lives manufacturers will go to any lengths to get the sometimes scarce minerals that go into them. Tantalum is one such rare ingredient. Few of us know that in the middle of Africa much human suffering is created in the pursuit of ...
The Rwandan occupation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was a key factor preventing the DRC from exploiting its coltan reserves for its own benefit. Mining of the mineral is almost exclusively artisanal and small-scale. A 2003 UN Security Council report[9] charged that a great ...
l'80% della produzione mondiale di questo minerale rarissimo e indispensabile per lo sviluppo della tecnologia di computer, telefoni cellulari, apparati di missili e di satelliti, viene estratto nella Repubblica democratica del Congo. Il commercio del coltan è completamente clandestino. In Congo ...
Trailer for the acclaimed documentary "Congo River, Beyond Darkness", by Thierry Michel. Check out this fantastic movie at: congo-river.com
July 2005 The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In the DRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies. At a remote mine in central DRC, workers with torches and pick axes hack at the ruddy earth. They are mining cassiterite, a mineral vital in ...