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<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2512/797934-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="Image credit: Reuters/Jonny Hogg/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >Image credit: Reuters/Jonny Hogg/File Photo&lt;/span><p>Glencore has become the first miner to export cobalt under the Democratic Republic of Congo's new quotas, sending a small initial shipment to test the system, one government source and two trade sources familiar with the matter told <i>Reuters</i>.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/glencore-first-miner-to-export-cobalt-under-new-drc-quotas-516510a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=264166">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2511/796280-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="An Apple logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on 25 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >An Apple logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration created on 25 August 2025. Image credit: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo&lt;/span><p>A US-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker's denials.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/apple-faces-new-lawsuit-over-congo-conflict-minerals-396458a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=263733">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

<p><img src="https://biz-file.com/c/2511/794489-240x135.jpg?5" width="240" height="135" alt="Women walk past a Mozambique soldier inside a camp for the internally displaced in the town of Quitunda, Mozambique, 22 September 2021. Image credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo" align="left"><br><span >Women walk past a Mozambique soldier inside a camp for the internally displaced in the town of Quitunda, Mozambique, 22 September 2021. Image credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner/File Photo&lt;/span><p>Hotel manager Fernando Cuna waited four years for TotalEnergies to resume construction of its $20bn liquefied natural gas project on Mozambique's coast, hoping it would bring clients to the nearby town of Palma. In a province where the average household income is less than $1 per day, locals like Cuna invested in hotels, catering and transport to benefit from the French oil major's 13 million tonne-per-year LNG project, only to see it suspended in 2021 due to Islamist militant attacks that killed dozens in Palma.</p><br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/locals-angry-over-totalenergies-enclave-model-in-mozambique-407099a">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com/Request/SendToEmailRedirect.aspx?ct=1&ci=263285">Email</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

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