Over 60% of the world's cobalt is mined from the Democratic Republic of The Congo. Your smartphone and laptop simply can't do without it. One can find 3,000,000,000 plots (500 million acres) of mostly virgin, mineral-rich land in the Congo Basin alone. Yet #CongoIsBleeding

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