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DRC Minister of Mines Joins Cobalt Action Partnership Published 12-23-20 Submitted by Responsible Business Alliance ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23, 2020 /CSRwire/ – The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), as the Partnership Lead of the Cobalt Action Partnership (CAP), today with CAP Implementing Partners announced that His Excellency Professor Willy Kitobo Samsoni, National Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is joining the CAP Steering Committee. This step demonstrates a significant step to link the global desire for responsible cobalt supply chains with the impo...

DRC joins Cobalt Action Partnership Child miners as young as 11 in eastern Congo. (Image by Enough Project, Flickr) The Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Willy Kitobo Samsoni, joined this week the Cobalt Action Partnership (CAP), a program with main goals to eliminate child and forced labor from the cobalt value chain, contribute to the sustainable development of communities, and respect the human rights of those affected by cobalt mining. Established by the Global Battery Alliance – a public-private collaboration platform founded in 2017 at the World Economic For...