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+====== Democratic Republic of Congo ======
+{{tag>countries africa drc cobalt}}
+{{:countries:drc_okapi.png?200|}}
+DRC's national animal, the okapi.
+The mining of certain metals is highly concentrated among just a few countries. For cobalt, the DRC accounts for 70 per cent of global mining.
+Political insecurity and troubling labor conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the main source of cobalt, and strikes and electricity shortages in platinum-mining South Africa, are further problems.
+===== Cobalt =====
+Congo supplies around 70% of the world’s cobalt, a key metal in the lithium-ion batteries used in EVs, with about a third of that coming from these so-called artisanal miners.
+Chinese companies have a tight grip on Congo’s cobalt mining industry, refining three-quarters of the world’s cobalt supply and producing about 70% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries.
+Congo overtook Peru to become the second-largest copper producer in 2023 and provides about 70% of the world’s cobalt, which is used in many electric vehicle batteries.((https://archive.ph/SOvRz))