How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions…

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