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Black people across the EU were most likely to report facing discrimination when looking for work, with Germany once again the second worst country.
The immigrant-native pay gap is due to "sorting," which segregates immigrants into lower-paid work, according to researchers.
Lack of recognition of foreign academic credentials and experience and immigration policies also play a role in the difference in pay.
Economically, immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa are worse off than other groups in Germany.
"We already notice that, especially when there are debates related to migration, the presence of Black people and people of African descent in Germany is called into question," Tahir Della, of Initiative of Black People in Germany, told @deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy
Disputes over who has the right to exploit the DRC's wealth of coltan have contributed to three decades of unrest in the country's east.
At least 150 metric tons of coltan are extracted monthly from the Rubaya mine in DR Congo and fraudulently exported to Rwanda, says the UN
Horizontal bar chart showing the change of critical minerals production per African country
The world's race to extract critical minerals could prove highly profitable for countries across Africa. However, a lack of labor and environmental standards, and little cross-border collaboration, is preventing that.
While critical minerals could bring future economic opportunities to Africa, in the meantime they've fed instability across the continent, whether displacing residents to increase extraction or upping the stakes in armed conflicts.
In 2023, Africa exported about $266 billion worth of critical minerals.
Most of them went to China.
But to fully capitalize on their mineral wealth, "developing countries must go beyond merely supplying raw minerals and advance up the value chains," a UNCTAD report said.
Copper, long used in traditional technologies, will remain the most needed mineral for cleaner technologies such as electric vehicles and photovoltaics in the coming years, says @iea.org
DR Congo produces 12.65% of global copper, according to most recent data
Greener energy, smartphones and the weapons industry all run on critical minerals.
At @news.dw.com we've looked ~through data~ at the African countries leading the way in the sector — and how the extraction of critical minerals has transformed the region.
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