A historic UN deal to restore degraded forest ecosystems in southeastern DRC is being torn apart by mining companies
This is an edited extract from Siddharth Kara’s book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Three of Angola’s most powerful officials have acknowledged they hold concealed shares in an oil venture linked to Cobalt International Energy.
South African miner Anglovaal Mining said on Tuesday it would continue to produce cobalt at its loss-making Chambishi plant in Zambia as long as prices hold up.
South African energy group Sasol on Thursday opened a 20 million euro cobalt catalyst plant in the Netherlands it said would supply its proposed Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) operations.