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Your contributions continue to have a substantial impact on children in the east of the Congo. They enable children to be trained by local cobblers to make thousands of pairs of shoes for their peers in the displacement camps. #DRC#FreeCongo https://t.co/wt0bTqTQ4d
Congo's misfortune is a fortune for its local coffin makers and Western countries exploiting the abundant copper, gold, diamonds, cobalt, uranium, coltan and oil minerals there. It's one the most resource rich countries but has 80 aid agencies and 40 armed groups
#CongoIsBleeding
#CongoIsBleeding
Keeping Congo in crisis = the West getting minerals for cheap. And leaders in our region - Kigali, Kampala, Nairobi et al - and the profiteering networks have performed that for them so well.
The contrast between the exploitation & misery that produces the blood minerals that power Apple products and the luxury lifestyle marketing of them is obscene.
#CongoIsBleeding
Just made myself aware about the situation in Congo.
Wasteful consumption of electronics is truely getting blood on our hands. To produce the nickle cobalt manganese batteries , the minerals are being sourced from mines where child labour is used
#CongoIsBleeding
Capitalism needs to be completely abolished.
To watch Congolese children mining for cobalt is literally pure evil.
Children should not have their childhoods taken away to mine for minerals to power our phones, electric cars, laptops and vapes.
#FreeCongo#CongoIsBleeding
Your devices made from Congo's minerals are not a bargain for your silence in the Congo Genocide,the least you can do is use them to help stop the ongoing crimes against humanity.
#CongoIsBleeding#CongoGenocide
DR Congo has the most mineral resources in the world, yet the country has a poverty rate of 72%. Their raw minerals are worth $24 trillion. #CongoIsBleeding
DR Congo🇨🇩: Land of abundant electrically charged lithium for electric cars, coltan for phones, a mountain of gold for villagers, and the world's richest minerals amidst some of the world's highest poverty rates
#FreeCongo#CongoIsBleeding#CongoGenocide
Congo is still bleeding
Who exactly is benefiting from Congo
• 12 hours unsafe working conditions child labour
• exploitation of Congo natives minerals
• UN peacekeeping mission which does not even protect natives but ignores exploitation & child labour
#CONGOISBLEEDING
In Congo, children as young as five are forced to work up to twelve hour shifts (some longer) to mine for minerals to make the West richer; DRC has a long history with colonial exploitation. This is modern slavery. Stop remaining silent. #CongoIsBleeding#DRC#CongoGenocide
@RayMwabini I don't think it's ethnic issues it's mainly militias sponsored by interference precisely because of the mineral wealth of that part of the continent. @Sungu_Oyoo is division of Congo a possible solution? Don't think so...
Congo alone could feed the rest of Afrika comfortably. It's rich!!
The UN peacekeepers have been using their immunity to steal the minerals in Congo. Yani, this world is upside down. Solidarity to the great people of Congo 🇨🇩. Change is on the horizon. 🇰🇪 ❤️🇨🇩
#congoIsBleeding
Mientras Apple anuncia un nuevo modelo de IPhone, en el Congo, las minas de cobalto para sus baterías colapsan con esclavos dentro, hay más de 40.000 niños esclavos en estas minas.
Estos esclavos cobran 1 dólar al día mientras Apple y Samsung venden sus teléfonos a 1300 dólares, esto es el capitalismo.
El Congo es uno de los países más ricos del mundo en recursos naturales como el cobalto y el coltán, componentes clave en los teléfonos de Apple o Samsung, sin embargo, es uno de los países más pobres... debido al saqueo por parte del imperio occidental, que usa a intermediarios y a terroristas que controlan minas ilegales para conseguir la materia prima mucho más barata.
Detrás de estos materiales, no solo está el saqueo, también se perpetra un genocidio apoyado por el imperialismo desde hace 3 décadas para conseguir hacerse con el control de las minas, un genocidio donde hay violaciones masivas a mujeres y esclavitud infantil.
LOOK AT WHAT IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM DID.
The US killed Patrice Lumumba because they didn't want the people of Congo to have a democratically elected socialist. They destabilized it so the corporate dictators can get resources for cheap and have slave labor. #FreeCongo