Cobalt itself is toxic to touch and breathe and hundreds of thousands of poor Congolese people, including estimates of 40,000 children, are touching and breathing it every day.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/community-voices/community-voices-california-s-green-colonialism/article_eceae9e8-a985-11ed-92cb-8b6dfd2929ef.html

Nearly 70 percent of Congolese people believe the EAC force to be ineffective, according to a by the Congo Research Group at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and its Kinshasa-based research partners, Ebuteli and BERCI.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/29/kamala-harris-africa-ghana-tanzania-zambia-visit-us-china/

Tshisekedi, who has called for U.N. peacekeepers to leave, said Sunday that the United Nations “came to help and protect the Congolese people, but it didn’t work.”

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/congos-president-makes-campaign-stop-conflict-zone-blasts-105537958