Meet Josephine Kibondo and Moza Zawadi, two women artisanal gold miners in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri Province. They share their stories of their life as artisanal miners and, while they say it’s hard work, they rely on the income from artisanal mining to support their families.
Together with Canada’s Carleton University and Uganda’s Development Research and Social Policy Analysis Centre, IMPACT is exploring women’s livelihoods in the artisanal mining of 3Ts (tin, tantalum, tungsten) and gold within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The human cost of the transition to electric vehicles.
The European Parliament voted to ban the sale of carbon-emitting petrol and diesel cars by 2035, pushing forward the transition to electric vehicles. But essential to electric vehicles are rare minerals used in the batteries: Cobalt has become highly important and as demand increases, a scramble for resources is happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the world’s largest deposits are found.
President Biden’s son Hunter was found in hot water “again”
In 2016, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden helped a Chinese mining conglomerate get control of a large Congolese cobalt mine from an American company.
According to one of the New York Times stories, Tom Perriello, then a top U.S. envoy to Africa, “sounded alarms” within the State Department in 2016 about the sale of Tenke Fungurume, one of the largest cobalt mines in the world, to China Molybdenum, a global mining company with financing from Chinese state banks. Perriello also raised the issue with the National Security Council, according to the story.
January 19, 2022, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, wrote to the National Archives with a sweeping document request [below], asking for any records or communications from the last two years of the Obama administration discussing cobalt mines, the companies involved in the deal, and Hunter Biden.
I write to request documents regarding Hunter Biden’s involvement in the 2016 sale of a
cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from an American company to a
Chinese company. Recently, the New York Times published explosive reporting on Hunter
Biden’s role in “helping facilitate a Chinese company’s purchase from an American company
of one of the world’s richest cobalt mines.”1
The American people deserve answers regarding why the Obama Administration—whether at then-Vice President Biden’s behest or not—watched in silence as an American company transferred control of this precious asset to a Chinese conglomerate and why Hunter Biden was—yet again—involved in international matters on which he has no expertise.
President Biden’s son crack cocaine habit
The FBI reportedly possesses Hunter Biden’s laptop containing emails that reveal his foreign business dealings in Ukraine – as well as alleged compromising photos involving sex acts and crack cocaine use.
Naked Hunter Biden filmed himself smoking ‘crack’, drinking hard seltzer, and fondling himself while floating inside a sensory deprivation tank – one month after convincing dad Joe to wire him $20,000 for his detox program.
Samir Ibrahim, 33, is the CEO and co-founder of SunCulture, a climate-tech company specializing in developing and commercializing solar power irrigation systems. The company is based out of Nairobi, Kenya, and provides and installs solar-powered drip irrigation systems to rural farmers in Kenya and beyond. SunCulture makes food more accessible to small farmers in Africa by providing affordable products that promote sustainability.
SunCulture is helping Kenya farmers facing irrigation issues with solar power.
A leak of 3.5 million documents revealed how a Chinese-run company moved millions of dollars to former Congo President Joseph Kabila’s family and allies.
The Fight Against A US Mining Company in Jamaica Continues
Jamaica was once the world’s leading exporter of bauxite, which is the ore from which aluminum is made, but decades of mining have taken a toll on the land and the people. With reserves depleted, the government is now pushing to move mining operations into the most ecologically sensitive part of the island known as Cockpit Country. We return to Cockpit Country to get an update on the fight to protect it.
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