Research & Papers:

  1. Unequal Exchange in the Age of Globalization (Andrea Ricci)
  2. Seizing the Means of Production: Cobalt and the Electric Vehicle Sector (Maria Sinclair)
  3. The DRC mining sector: overview and Chinese involvement (
  4. The Democratic Republic of the Congo? Corruption, Patronage, and Competitive Authoritarianism in the DRC (Stephanie A. Matti)
  5. A Green Transition But At What Cost? (Human Trafficking Search)
  6. Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: The DRC’s Mining Heartland (International Crisis Group)
  7. Metal mining and birth defects: a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Daan Van Brusselen et al.)
  8. Cobalt (USGS)
  9. Landscape Analysis of Cobalt Mining Activities from 2009 to 2021 Using Very High Resolution Satellite Data (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (Chloe Brown et al.)

Newspapers & Media:

  1. A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution (The New York Times)
  2. How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese (The New York Times)
  3. Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost (Washington Post)
  4. Forget Gas Prices. The Billionaire Club's Run on Cobalt Says Everything About Our Battery-Powered Future (Vanity Fair)
  5. Green Energy's Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources (Foreign Policy)
  6. ‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars (The Guardian)
  7. Cobalt isn’t a conflict mineral (Africa is a Country)
  8. Hands off Africa (Africa is a Country)
  9. The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush (The New Yorker)