Congo is the world’s top cobalt supplier and imposed a four-month suspension on exports in February, then extended by three ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have reached an outline economic cooperation accord during their first ...

Cobalt sulphate entering the EV battery supply chain in China fell to an average of just $3,556 per tonne in January, but shot up by 80% after the ban to average $6,394 in May.

During one of his many visits to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Siddharth Kara, an author and Harvard academic who has spent 20 years researching modern slavery, met a young woman sifting dirt ...

A dispute over one of the biggest copper and cobalt mines is escalating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening to disrupt exports of essential battery materials and raising questions ...

China’s CMOC Group produced more cobalt at its two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the first half of this year, despite the African nation’s ban on exports. The world’s ...

The trading unit of CMOC Group — the world’s biggest producer of cobalt — has declared force majeure on deliveries of the battery metal, after the Democratic Republic of Congo extended a ban ...

Congo accounts for three-quarters of the world’s mined cobalt supply. Industrial mines produce most of Congo’s cobalt, but “artisanal” miners, who dig by hand and often die when tunnels cave in, ...

CAPE TOWN — Democratic Republic of Congo Mines Minister Antoinette N’Samba Kalambayi is seeking to cancel a decree granting Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) a monopoly over artisanal cobalt ...

All the cobalt excavated from Jolie’s neighbourhood in Kolwezi, to the tune of 50,000 tonnes a year, is sold through Chinese intermediaries to industrial mining companies, mixed into their ...

World Vision has documented the voices of children kept out of school to work in a copper and cobalt artisanal mine in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo and has found that “this type of ...

Industrial mines produce most of Congo's cobalt, but "artisanal" miners, who dig by hand and often die when tunnels cave in, account for up to 30% of production, though that fluctuates depending ...