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2024-03-13 00:09:00 UTC - HELPFUL
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While your definition of slave may vary, this region and it's associated poverty have forced many tens of thousands to turn to dangerous practice of "artisanal" mining to try to survive. Many children are then actually forced to work in those small pits and mines. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/the-dark-side-of-congos-cobalt-rush
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