I worked in Zaire for 2 years almost 40 years ago. My takeaway is; why are post colonial rulers as bad as or worse than their former overlords? Mobutu, Kabila, Leopoldo et al. I find it distressing that these good people are still without electricity and running water and most importantly schools in the 21st century! This is just wrong

@straitarrow5784

Жыл бұрын

Africans are hopeless at governing their own countries.

Painful indeed! The poor are always exploited beyond limit...

These people should be taken care of by the money leaving there land. This is robbery of there rights to the land and wealth that should be shared with the people who live there.

@rolandndia1957

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly

it's really hard to watch this. My heart aches.

@congochildrentrust4734

5 жыл бұрын

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@zionmayson635

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be off topic but does someone know a way to get back into an instagram account..? I was dumb lost my account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.

As long as greed exists, there exist conflicts & chaos. And if nothing is done to help alleviate the miseries of the poor people of Congo. Then, we are all part of the problem because we hold in our hands the product to which those minerals go to. All of the laptops, pc, smartphones & electric cars man has ever produced. We are all in one way or another connected to their sufferings. May God Almighty have mercy on us all.

@bushrasajid9543

2 жыл бұрын

Brother we all with you but remember westrn world is horrible for poors nation.imf and world bank destroyed the economy of any muslims and Africans countries.

Horrible, especially when u know how much money they are pulling out of these mines! These companies all provide big promises they never deliver on. Commitments and compensation should not be handled by village elders but by lawyers who would get these things in writings. Their needs to be guarantees and penalties for failures written into contracts. I bet for 200k they could have provided really nice houses and a school for these people.

My people are suffering like this, why?

@intrealestate

6 жыл бұрын

So, all farmers should move to the city? It's not your problem, it's ours. We must demand that our governments demand international mining companies abide by the same rules they do in their own countries. Then you can continue typing your ridiculous comments.

@kadamawe1able

6 жыл бұрын

Muana Muluba...your leaders are sellouts...and the ppl sit by and watch...then cry

@bobmartin7068

5 жыл бұрын

Muana Muluba Ask your leaders, they are the ones stealing all the minerals and selling them to other countries, and keeping the money for themselves.

@bobmartin7068

5 жыл бұрын

gemmav stokes They dont look like they are farming , or doing much of anything else.

@afonsosousa8788

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobmartin7068 yes government are corrupts they have pressure from the big ones they can't let none of poor country's whit values resources be organised rich power health because after they can faith and say no if you want you need pay and then all big rich live stile double trepel quadruple and they can afford or have it

The introduction states that this mining company is owned by the Congolese state. The rest of the programme refers to "the mining company" as though some foreign entity were to blame for the poverty in which the people live ... but "the mining company" is the Congolese state/government ...

I want to start a revolution in congo.

@YOUNGitheGOD

4 жыл бұрын

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@kalisamartin8284

4 жыл бұрын

Email me : Kalisamartin0531@gmail.com, I need to join to start revolution

The supply chain from the source of cobalt to the apple iPhones and Tesla EV is so convoluted that companies can have deniability.

At least offer those families a good life, I mean school, clean water, nice houses and hospitals for the sake of God, you can't be a slave in your own land. How can a human being be so heartless like that.

@neobraihm6197

5 жыл бұрын

Pple are just suffering bcoz of leaders,their doing nothing

@ukanget.alexandro2931

5 жыл бұрын

The problem is simply poor leadership. May God help us.

A global administration is needed to oversee safety in mines, to protect the environment, and also enforce building codes. In good market conditions each individual has a change to progress. Then a large company that wants to pay the workers little will have no staff. A government that cannot generate a climate of opportunity should be voted out, and hopefully superseded by one that can.

God may you please serve Africa 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Do you know that you be judged for all the crimes committed in the Congo?

Leaders sell out their ppl same old story sad

Thanks

Six years later, ABC News YT vid 'Blood Cobalt', shows that nothing has changed - if anything, it's worse. What an advanced world we live in...

its sad already. even the subtitles are off

Afrika has cursed itself through failure to educate ourselves, failure to make the thieves that we ourselves vote into power accountable, religion and other foolish self imposed boundaries. So until we give ourselves right-knowledge we'll never know the value of the Afrikan resources.

YISSAYAH KONGO!

Only the Congolese People Revolution will change things!!!

@CarmyDivine

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

Very sad they have to live like that

We should not have given up the Congo as a colonial state. We could have saved a lot of money for Belgium. Especially now that those raw materials are highly sought after in the energy transition.

@joshm6414

2 жыл бұрын

Which resources, to be more specific?

@bazukamimi5721

2 жыл бұрын

Too late, its an EAC State now. Dont you feel like your comment is idiotic? Are you so special to colonize others and Not get colonized?

@ranaarun100

Жыл бұрын

That's why world is supporting Russia against oppressors of europe

Ooooh sheem congo

So sad to this country people live in poor county with rich mineral.. Owh my God.

Wealth that has become curse to the common people. Powerful feeding on the powerless. People are so inhumane, how are we even called humans & we don't mind plight of the next human. In the end wealth & exploitation doesn't count, what you do to positively impact society does. I feel disappointed human race myself included.

Who's in charge of this country?

So sad that we take from the poor to have the best.

Read Corona Crisis Nature Strikes Back about the relationship between Coltan, Cobalt and Corona.

Only I can say is how stupid we’re 😥😥😥

@gizlawittens9238

2 жыл бұрын

very stupid indeed.🤣

Why re they doeing all this to their own peoples ,very sad .i hope when those leaders die they can take their big houses nice cars and money wiith them.i dont think they have a hart.

@snjdhzhzdjsjx4408

4 жыл бұрын

Yes some people don't going to get that heart anymore it called already dead heart

Africa should do farming

It is much cheaper and more effecient for a mining company to extract Cobalt by using bulldozers , excavators and huge trucks and employ 20 men to operate them . What you see in this video is thousands of men and boys being paid $4 per day which adds up to a bigger cost than using trucks and machinery. This is not cheap labor. The Congo government stipulates manual labor is used and they are paid $4 per day. $4 goes a long way in the Congo unlike America where $4 buys you nothing.

My blood boils ..we screwed local natives we screwed mother earth

pauvre congo kinshasa

Sow injustice - reap injustice. Sow no mercy - reap no mercy. "Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he himself shall also call, and shall not be answered." Proverbs 21:13 " One oppresses the poor to multiply for himself, another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty." Proverbs 22:16 Hear you rich ones who oppress the poor - "And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals, panting for the dust of the earth to be on the head of the helpless, and turning aside the way of the humble. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness." Amos 2:5-7 O rich ones of the earth, Judah did not escape the judgment of God, nor will you unless you repent of all this injustice.

@ianmcdonald8648

5 жыл бұрын

@Kowalski Penguin A farmer does not harvest the crop until the fruit is mature enough. A fisherman who runs a business does not go after the baby fish but the mature fish. An actor does not present his lines until the script has been finalized. So our Lord does not harvest wickedness from the earth unitl the cup of His indignation is full. He is EXTREMELY longsuffering. Remember what He said to Abraham... "Gen 15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." God had every right to deal with teh Amorites even during the time of Abraham, but Israel was not yet born, nor had it gone through affliction - 'labour pains'. Labour pains have to be present before natural birthing can take place, and the last series of pains are 'unbearable' as every mother would well know, especially for the first child. But after the birth, the sorrow is forgotten and the mourning is turned into joy. I draw your attention to 2Peter 3:9-14; "The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance. ....." And to James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." The angels asked God will we root out the weeds growing among the wheat? And God said no, lest you also root up the wheat. Let both grow together until harvest , then they can be separated and each sent to their rightful place. Matthew 13:30

@raulbirta7982

2 жыл бұрын

God will not save this people because there is no God. If there were good he would have done something. The only one who can save those people are other people whether it is first world leaders or Congo people with big influence like lawyers.

@ianmcdonald8648

2 жыл бұрын

@@raulbirta7982 you have written "Good", I assume you meant God? How can you be sure there IS NO God? What proof do you have that there is NO GOD?

@raulbirta7982

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianmcdonald8648 What proof do you have that there is. For what I know in the bible is written about the human creation from God, although there is scientific proof of the human evolution. We all came from one source. The first ever cell on the planet which over billion of years it evolved until dinosaurs and apes appeared on the planet and subsequently Humans. I didn't say that. Science did. The same science that brings you cars, electricity food and clean water at your home to your family. So next time instead of thanking God for being alive and having a good life, say thank you to science and evolution.

@raulbirta7982

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianmcdonald8648 Don't get me wrong I don't have anything against religion I understand that humans like to believe in something bigger i don't judge anyone because I respect everyone's opinion. But when people spread to other people sayings from the bible which suggest that God did that and God did that, then it counts as trying to change others people opinion to believing that God exists and he is responsible for everything. Be religious, pray, go to church, but do it quietly, for you and only and stop spreading what you believe in. No one cares. I also don't run around with propaganda against religion, then why should you.

CONGO EARNS NEARLY 7 BILLION DOLLARS IN COBALT ALONE PER YEAR. THE POPULATION IS JUST 6 MILLION.... IF COBALT MONEY ALONE IS DISTRIBUTED EACH CONGOLESE WILL HAVE ROUGHLY $1200 PER HEAD PER YEAR...BUT PER CAPITA INCOME IS JUST 450 $....WHERE DOES ALL THE BALANCE FROM JUST COBALT EXPORT GO????

@omkalo4

4 жыл бұрын

WHERE DID YOU GET THE FIGURE THAT YOU ARE CLAIMING HERE? CONGO HAS A POPULATION OF NEARLY 80 MILLION NOT 6 AHAAAA THE WEST DOESN'T LIKE THE CONGOLESE ...

:(

ces notre politic qui est mauvaise il faux apprendre quant ont des Ereur

Don't the greedy companies owners realise God will Judge them? They'd better repent now, and do the right thing. Treat other people as you would like to be treated yourself! Jesus is Lord!

But who cursed cong???

@nathanaelmukyanga3866

4 жыл бұрын

Esau Shevy Mobutu gave Congo to Satan Himself we need God save us

Y do you vote for people who do nothng for money

0:38 forget to mention the laptop of the "professor", when listing the terrible things that are to blame for using cobalt. (the use of cobalt has nothing to do with the way it's mining. you're mixing up "engineering" with politics and make a direct connection that doesn't exist. etc...)

@artartful854

4 жыл бұрын

Both the professor's laptop and the engineering are irrelevant. It is simply yet another example of how capitalism fails to serve all of society and only the investor class. All too typical of the corruption in most all of Africa, I suspect the govt. was paid off.

And I just watched a video about "freedom fighters" pro Shah Iran who support brutal dynasty in Iran and oil plundering there.

This world is going to hell

@romanplesko5304

4 жыл бұрын

It Hurts you are probably right.

@gizlawittens9238

2 жыл бұрын

No man hell is coming to earth. 😈

Whole these minerals are developing European countries and others on the expense of poor Congolese people.