As demand for smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles has soared, so has demand for the minerals – such as cobalt and coltan – for the batteries that power them. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has vast reserves of these minerals, and their extraction is fuelling the country’s civil war. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out more about how global demand for tech is causing human suffering in central Africa, and how we, and western powers and companies, are complicit
How green tech is fuelling a war in Africa – video | Democratic Republic of the Congo
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