DR Congo's faltering fight against illegal cobalt mines
An artisanal miner carries a sack of ore at the Shabara mine near Kolwezi in DRC on October 12, 2022. The country’s poorly regulated artisanal mines have tarnished the image of Congolese cobalt. PHOTO | JUNIOR KANNAH | AFP
Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in south eastern DR Congo, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth.
