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About 70 percent of the world’s cobalt used for batteries in mobile phones to electric cars comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and a significant percentage from Madagascar. Countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia have among the largest reserves of lithium globally.