TOPSHOT – A general view of artisanal miners working at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi on … [+] October 12, 2022. – Some 20,000 people work at Shabara, in shifts of 5,000 at...
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Congo Watchdog Wants Billions of Dollars More From China Infra Deal
(Bloomberg) — The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government watchdog called for a major overhaul of the country’s $6.2 billion minerals-for-infrastructure deal with China after its investigation...
Battery Push By Tesla And Other EV Makers Raises Child Labor Concerns
A child and a woman break rocks extracted from a cobalt and copper mine in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 23, 2016. JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images Carmakers have committed tens o...
The Congo Has Established Its First BTC Mining Facility
The Congo in Africa has set up its first official bitcoin mining facility. The clincher? It runs entirely on clean energy and seeks to avoid the often atmosphere-polluting methods utilized by former a...
The Block: Congo national park’s bitcoin mining bet saved it from going bust: MIT Tech Review
Nestled on the eastern edge of the Congo basin, the Virunga National Park is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, home to half of Africa’s terrestrial animals and a third of the ...
Bitcoin Saving Wildlife, Virunga National Park in Congo Turns to BTC Mining
– Advertisement – The park leverages renewable energy for its Bitcoin mining which started during the lockdown in 2020. Virunga National Park, one of the oldest national parks in DR Congo ...
National Park in Congo is mining Bitcoin using hydro-electricity
As cryptocurrency mining becomes an increasingly popular method of obtaining digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), one national park in eastern Congo has decided to put its natural resources to use in...
DAO Raises Millions to Save Congo Forest – Trustnodes
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization, RedemptionDAO, has bid to become a key player in saving the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and the Virunga National Par...
Congo Miner Threatens to Seize Giant Cobalt Project From Chinese Partner
(Bloomberg) — A shareholder dispute over one of the world’s biggest copper and cobalt mines is heating up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after state miner Gecamines threatened to block exp...
Congo Based Startup Jambo Raises $7.5 Million in Seed Funding Round – Fintech Bitcoin News
A Congo-based Web3 app developer, Jambo, recently said it raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round. According to a report, the startup’s successful seed round is the latest by an Africa-based firm ...