Randa Abdel-Fattah
speaker
3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The quest to control one of the world's most precious natural resources.
A resource we use every day when we pick up our smartphone.
vehicles.
Cobalt mines are often protected by heavily armed security and are not welcoming to outside prying eyes.
But Siddharth was actually able to get into one.
And this is what he saw.
This is actual audio from this very mining site that Siddharth captured while he was there.
These thousands of workers, many of them teenage boys, work without safety equipment in toxic, dangerous conditions, hauling away thousands of tons of cobalt.
And each worker maybe makes a few dollars a day for this labor, while companies that make products with cobalt bring in billions, selling to all kinds of tech companies.
Cobalt mining hasn't only fueled our gadgets and machines.
It's also a vital material in the creation of electric cars, a technology that many people hope will help in the fight against global climate change.
With every passing day, he became more and more obsessed.
Rubber and ivory in, weapons and soldiers out.
He carefully documented what he was seeing, and eventually he pieced together what was happening.
The young man's name was E.D.
Morell.
And what he figured out is that there wasn't trade happening.
The guns and soldiers he saw were going to enforce the extraction of rubber and ivory in the Congo.
It didn't work.
Morell noticed he was suddenly getting the cold shoulder at work.
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