I'm sure they enter and exit the mining camps whenever they like at their own free will. Without this job opportunity, they may be more destitute than before.

I felt the same way when Epstein got arrested. What happened to those poor girls he employed on his private island?

/S

Children don't have to work so they have time to go to school. After school they can get a better job than artisanal cobalt mining. It's not like artisanal cobalt mining is an industry that needs to be protected. Commercial scale cobalt mining also exists and is far more effective at extracting cobalt and if you have an education it's far easier to get a job at a real cobalt mining company.

The only thing worse than being exploited by foreign capitalists, is not being exploited by foreign capitalists

Depends. Are those foreign capitalists Rwandan warlords?

Paul Kagame is certainly a piece of shit but he is definitely not a warlord

No. The rwandan warlords are also being exploited by foreign capitalists.

There are no rwandan warlords... By far the most influential force among Congolese miners are Chinese companies

Who buy from Rwandan warlords.