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The Real Mobile Phone Wars – DRC

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10 October 2001 As the high tech age takes over more and more of our lives manufacturers will go to any lengths to get the sometimes scarce minerals that go into them. Tantalum is one such rare ingredient. Few of us know that in the middle of Africa much human suffering is created in the pursuit of it.

  1. ikeano29
    June 14th, 2010 at 03:36 | #1

    @wattamochi Why do you need to know?

  2. bomshizzle
    June 24th, 2010 at 05:57 | #2

    I can’t lie…this is painful. We have to do more than blog.

  3. carsanookdotcom
    June 30th, 2010 at 19:37 | #3

    Congo – Happy Birthday 30-6-2010

    Lumumbashi c’est ancient Elisabethville. J’etais la pendant les annes 90′

    La biere etait tres bonne: Pumba biere a la tradition Belge. Je souviens les deux
    Grecs. “We are traders” il disait. Aussi je me souviens les grandes maisons coloniale avec les piscines snas l’eau et les fenetres sans vitrines.

    Bonne 50 anniversaire DRC.

    Dr John
    CarSanook
    Kingdom of Thailand

  4. phuckeneh
    August 12th, 2010 at 00:20 | #4

    Dude, Europeans left Africans the way they are by invading them hundreds of years ago and cultivating their people as slaves. Now if you look at the majority of these countries, their median age is 18 which means there are more children and teenagers than adults. How can a society improve when the small handful of adults are corrupt and the rest of the nation(s) are uneducated youths forced to seek survival skills of animals. Not to mention Europeans contaminated these people with Christianity!

  5. frinseedaka
    December 7th, 2010 at 13:50 | #5

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  6. lularibeiros
    December 11th, 2010 at 16:23 | #6

    Congrat..we need This kind of journalism…this is time for revelation of reality, and if the main streem media do not ..we will…….all respect for your work.

  7. alexbormanbou
    January 6th, 2011 at 01:21 | #7

    Great job. Congrats and go on. Thanks

  8. fireicer
    January 8th, 2011 at 11:18 | #8

    @ikeano29 suppressed from the public again.

  9. fireicer
    January 8th, 2011 at 11:19 | #9

    I hate mobile phones as it is and this just makes me hate them even more. No mobile phone for me.

  10. LetMeSaySomething41
    March 20th, 2011 at 14:41 | #10

    It is by no mistake that when I created the earth I deposited some of the richest minerals and ores in Africa. The Lord showed me that when the colonial power in Congo left in the 60′s, a great power vacuum was left also in the spirit and the hurried nature in which they left without leaving sound leadership opened the door to a spirit of division.

  11. eblip
    March 24th, 2011 at 22:44 | #11

    at the end of the day its the corrupt african leaders who are the problem…not us buying the resources.
    in that case all resource taking is wrong from anywhere
    stop being hypocrits.
    the real sufferer is the planet.
    so throw away your mobile phones, tv’s watches , computers cars…and tehn speak…otherwise stfu.

  12. eblip
    March 24th, 2011 at 23:16 | #12

    how pathetic …a white woman going to where gang rape is second nature…she is asking for it….i tell you….with all her blonde hair….acting like she owns the world.

  13. blackpassenger
    May 6th, 2011 at 12:30 | #13

    @eblip huh? whats your bloody point? whay is that pathetic? and if its so pathetic, you get your bumbuclaut out there then!

  14. blackpassenger
    May 6th, 2011 at 12:31 | #14

    @fireicer continue using your aliminium cans tied to a string

  15. fireicer
    May 6th, 2011 at 23:08 | #15

    @blackpassenger nooo i prefer using a land line or better yet talk face to face, its far more personal and much more dignified lol

  16. happy51593
    May 10th, 2011 at 17:56 | #16

    They forgot the iPad

  17. irishgeoff1
    June 22nd, 2011 at 07:19 | #17

    I think some cell phone users are a pain:) That why I have a cool cell phone jammer.
    google :- Yapper Zapper

  18. vivascargill1
    June 26th, 2011 at 23:33 | #18

    @fireicer thank god that makes 2 people!!

  19. sweetdwhite
    July 7th, 2011 at 08:19 | #19

    @ikeano29 only an idiot would believe what you said congo is the most resource rich country in the world way richer than iraq or saudi arabia it has 50 trillion in resources every thing we need. the problem would be securing the congo it has 70 million people and is a lot bigger than iraq. some people don’t think

  20. Frostie391
    August 3rd, 2011 at 09:43 | #20

    @LetMeSaySomething41 fag

  21. bsimpson505
    August 23rd, 2011 at 01:34 | #21

    Fantastic reporting. Steel nuts.

  22. Ihateyourfuckinggutz
    October 30th, 2011 at 05:56 | #22

    Good reporting but not great. She left out the origins of this conflict and poverty. In 1961, Patrice Lumumba was killed by the CIA and the Belgians because of his Pan Africanist views. Which basically means. That if Africa has the most abundant amount of the world’s natural resources. Africa should control and benefit from it. Call it racist, colonialism or evil. But they didn’t like that. So they had him killed and put a kleptocrat in his place. This is the results. Libya: 20 years from now.

  23. alexiasccc
    November 19th, 2011 at 22:16 | #23

    Bloody courage they have to pull this off

  24. antonpictures
    November 29th, 2011 at 02:20 | #24

    Coltan of Congo - War of Electronics
    (The Film is available FREE @antonpictures Documentary Section)
    a George Anton Documentary

    paste this: /watch?v=wHqU6aSARZc
    or just click below on
    antonpictures

  25. Quinno77
    December 21st, 2011 at 00:16 | #25

    @evolvingwisdom
    Relocate them from the area they are mining coltan? Coltan draws conflict.

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