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Is Your Cell Phone Fueling War in The Congo?

Is Your Cell Phone Fueling War in The Congo?

In your cell phone – which you may be reading this on right now – are four things that could be contributing to the deadliest war since World War II: gold, tungsten, tin and tanalum. All of those minerals are found in The Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of a brutal, deadly war over the nation’s massive natural resources. A large part of the violence stems from attempts to control the illicit trade in minerals, and in a mafia-like arrangement with mines and smuggling runs, the minerals are shipped out of Congo, into eastern Asia. There, they are smelted and refined, where they then find their way…

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