I n 2023, Elon Musk vowed to prove that Tesla's cobalt suppliers weren't using child or forced labour at mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After the board and investors from Tesla ...

Kolwezi has some of the world's largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S.

This cobalt can come at a high human price. Seven years ago, revelations about dire working conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into the world’s headlines after Amnesty ...

"The first time I heard about the impacts of cobalt mining in Congo was from a TikTok [video]," Ms Ndango, who lives in the United States, tells the BBC. "After watching that TikTok I did my own ...

Elon Musk's construction company, The Boring Company, has turned Texas' "incredible vistas" into "gravel mines," a longtime ...

Could the least exciting bit of Elon Musk's empire ... batteries free of cobalt, at least for shorter-range vehicles. Cobalt is expensive and a lot is sourced from DR Congo, where it has been ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has criticised Apple ... under a project code-named Titan. "Some cobalt mined in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been linked to human rights abuses ...