Does Your Smartphone Fund Conflict in the DRC?

Publisher:
Al Jazeera English
Publication Date:
3 January 2012
Tags:
Congo-Kinshasa, Conflict, Peace and Security, ICT and Telecom, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Mining

A look at conflict minerals and how smartphones and laptop computers are funding warlords in eastern Congo.

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