DR Congo’s faltering fight against illegal cobalt mines ...Middle East

SHABARA: Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in southeastern DR Congo, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth.In this scene of almost biblical toil, the prize is cobalt -- a strategic metal found in abundance in the impoverished central African nation.But the huge pit in Shabara, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Kolwezi, is also emblematic of a headache.Around 20,000 people work at the mine, in shifts of 5,000 at a time. The mining has been carrying on for years in flagrant violation of DRC laws and in defiance of the site's owner, a subsidiary of mining and commodities giant Glencore.As the diggers gouge at bl

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