Synopsis
Jamal Osman travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate the dirty business of cobalt mining and the toxic cost for miners and their families of going green.
- Programme: Unreported World
- Episode: Toxic Cost of Going Green
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Geography | Globalisation, trade and interdependence
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