Door: Congo is Bleeding draws nearer – UCOS

Congo is Bleeding draws nearer – UCOS — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:15:44 +0000

[…] The genocide in Congo rages on. Since the beginning of the 90’s eastern Congo has been a region plagued by violence due to the mineral wealth of the territory. Approximately 70% of the world’s Cobalt supply is mined in east Congo, alongside huge amounts of copper and lithium. Cartellized terrorist groups, financed by western corporations and governments, maintain the instability of the region and the steady cheap supply of mined raw material. These minerals are widely used for electronics and particularly for batteries in the growing electric car industry, with an impending explosion in global demand and no limitation on violent extractionism the crisis only threatens to worsen. Vicious extractionism threatens the contuguity of local communities and encircles them with massive resource extraction projects, many are forced to take manual jobs in mines and in brutal conditions, effectively enslaving the population. Massive criminal extraction schemes have created a wound which only threatens to worsen without intervention, and the silence of the world speaks volumes. Join WeDecolonizeVUB in breaking this silence on the 29th of February at the Flemish African House f…. […]

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