Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War

Channel 4, Unreported World, Juliana Ruhfus (reporter)

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Title: Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War
Producer: Channel 4, Unreported World, Juliana Ruhfus (reporter)
Category: Globalization, Unreported World
Views: 1117
Added: Oct 6th 2010
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Description

Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the production of mobile phones, is at the root of the war in Congo.

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Journeyman, pictures, DRC, Congo, Coltan, mines, War, lords, Child, soldiers, Tantalum, Conflict, Africa, juliana ruhfus, mobile, phone