My smartphone is too old...

[LucaMs]

http://news.sky.com/story/meet-dorsen-8-who-mines-cobalt-to-make-your-smartphone-work-10784120

 

[Peter Simpson]

I saw that news report on Sky News a few weeks ago @LucaMs, it's really bad. The mine bosses don't give a dam about the children or the working conditions, children even work when they are ill and are seriously given a right mouthful and lose their jobs of they complain.

As long as they get the cobalt and get paid that all the matters to the mine managers and bosses. You really should try to find and watch that actual report, it's seriously heart braking

 

[LucaMs]

Some African countries are rich, their population is starving.
Whose fault is it? Perhaps the so-called advanced states?
Nigeria is one of the largest diamond producers; despite this many Nigerian people come to Italy to try to survive.
We are still at the time of slavery, before Abraham Lincoln.

 

[andymc]

It should be the legal responsibility of all manufacturers to ensure the supply chain doesn't have this kind of rubbish on it.

 

[Beja]

Some African countries are rich, their population is starving.
Whose fault is it? Perhaps the so-called advanced states?
Nigeria is one of the largest diamond producers; despite this many Nigerian people come to Italy to try to survive.
We are still at the time of slavery, before Abraham Lincoln.

You said it right..
I recommend you read Season of Immigration to the North. I think there's Italian edition.