Conflict over minerals

The scramble for Africa began in earnest in the 1880s when European powers started competing to extract valuable natural resources like rubber, timber and ivory. A century later, our hard-wired world again relies on valuable resources from Africa: uranium, coltan, cobalt—the stuff we need in our mobile phones and electric car batteries.

Tune in to this episode of the Cambridge-based Naked Scientist podcast series to hear DIIS senior researcher Peer Schouten discuss the issues with Ed Kessler and Christopher Wadibia.