THE guns have fallen silent in the two-year civil war. A ceasefire is in
place, and troops are pulling back 15 kilometres from the front line. The
fighting has killed 250,000 people, and a million people have been displaced in
East Congo. What has all this got to do with our mobile phones? Quite a lot, as
it happens. The numbers of dead and wounded might have been fewer had it not
been for our insatiable appetite for instant communication.
This is the story of a health scare with a difference. Unlike smokers and car
drivers, mobile phone users…
