17/09/2022
Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 is bleeding and the world is silent about it!
If you travel through aeroplane ✈ or if you're using a smartphone📱 —know that approximately 60% of the raw materials used in the production of your smart phones are gotten from the D.R.C. 🇨🇩!!!
Congo's cobalt is used in the production of lithium-ion batteries🔋used in smart phones such as iPhone and other gadgets.
There are many foreign companies in DRC such as Apple, Glencore, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin etc who looting their resources and carrying away all the money while underdeveloping the region to keep the people in extreme poverty in order to maintain the status-quo of cheap labour in the D.R.C!
1) Apple Inc. is an American 🇺🇸 multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
2) Glencore plc is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company
3) The Boeing Company is an American 🇺🇸 multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide.
4) Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American 🇺🇸 aerospace, defense, arms, security, and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests.
Poverty and child labourers has become a norm in the D.R.C. Many children revealed horror of working in mines ⚒ because they have to risk their lives to mine cobalt for the multinational foreign companies in order for them to earn money to buy food and provide shelter for themselves.
Many Congolese child die when some these mines collapsed.
Due to the abundance of natural resources in D.R.C, these multinational companies are sponsoring insurgency in the region in order to keep the people in fear of controlling their own resources!
It has been estimated that over 6 million people have died in D.R.C 🇨🇩 since 1996 till now! Why is the turning