Tag: Democratic Republic of Congo

Video: The life of the super-rich in Central Africa | DW Documentary

By DW Documentary – Apr 3, 2021

Many millionaires live in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s poorest countries. This film depicts some of those who have made fortunes amid the chaos, including musicians, mining bosses, entrepreneurs and preachers.

Read more & Video(42:26): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPLylJk89w

Apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, And Dell Sued Over Child Labor Deaths At Cobalt Mines In Congo | HAF

A Child Breaks Rocks Extracted From A Cobalt Mining At A Copper Mine Quarry And Cobalt Pit In Lubumbashi, Congo
A child breaks rocks extracted from a cobalt mining at a copper mine quarry and cobalt pit in Lubumbashi, Congo © AFP / Junior Kannah

HAF – November 11, 2020 | Source: RT.com

A civil lawsuit has been filed in a federal court in Washington DC against Apple, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Tesla, Microsoft, and Dell. They are accused of exploiting child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Read more: https://humansarefree.com/2020/11/apple-tesla-google-microsoft-dell-sued-child-labor-deaths-cobalt-mines-congo.html

US and UK Intelligence ‘Hold Key’ to Death of UN Secretary General 56 Years Ago – October 6, 2017

Picture released on August 15, 1960 at Elizabethville airoport, (Elisabethville now Lubumbashi), of UN general secretary Mister H., Dag Hammarskjold, welcomed by Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (Tchombe also written Tschombe), leader of the Katanga province, part of former colony Belgian Congo (Congo Belge), now called Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where violence appeared after the Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.

A United Nations investigation into the death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in 1961 could be edging closer to solving the mystery. It is understood the UK and US intelligence services could be sitting on vital evidence.

The death, in a plane crash, of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 has been a mystery ever since but a new investigation could be edging closer to solving it.

Research by Swedish aid worker Goran Bjorkdahl and Susan Williams, a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, has forced the UN to reopen the case.

“My own conclusion… is that Hammarskjold’s DC6 was brought down and that the motive was to maintain the west’s control over Katanga minerals. It is significant that the UN, after Hammarskjöld’s death, has become less of a challenge to the big powers,” wrote Bjorkdahl back in 2011……

Read more at: SputnikNews.com

 

The Child Slaves Who Created Your Electric Car — August 14, 2017

By: Jess Murray / Truth Theory Whilst the news of Britain’s pledge to ban the sale of both petrol and diesel cars in favor of electric vehicles by 2040 sounds positive at first, reports have stated that there is a very serious downside that has recently been revealed. According to reports, children as young as four years old are…

via The Child Slaves Who Created Your Electric Car — True Activist