You may have thought you were just carjacking a few fools, in Vice City. Or throwing a touchdown to Terrell Owens. Or sneaking around with Solid Snake. But really, when you were deep into all those PlayStation 2 games, you were ever-so-indirectly fueling a war in central Africa. In the Congo, a decade-old conflict has […]

Children Mining Coltan in CongoIn the rugged volcanic mountains of the Congo the conflict known as Africa's World War continues to smolder after ten grueling years. The conflict earned its name because at the height of the war eight African nations and over 25 militias were in the combatant mix. But more recently the conflict was given another name: The PlayStation War. The name came about because of a black metallic ore called coltan, which is used to make cell phones, laptops and other electronics made by SONY. Extensive evidence shows that during the war hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coltan was stolen from the Democratic Republic of Congo.