Child Labour

Congo Cobalt Mining

Congo Cobalt Mining: AU Must Stop The Use Of Child Labour

It is rather painful and sad that while kids are learning and playing with their gadgets in Europe and America, some African kid is somewhere undergoing a very painful experience just to provide the raw material used for the manufacture of those devices. The world barely notices it because it is happening somewhere in Africa where ‘anything goes’, conveniently forgetting that before the colours, we were all first humans, and humanity must always come first. 

In several parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which is in Central Africa, the issue of slavery and child Labour in the mining …