DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

Battle for control of DRC fuelled by increasing demand for minerals such as coltan and cobalt, crucial in smartphones and laptops ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo--For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly ... It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds. The original boundaries of the reserve ...

The hunt for tech-industry minerals in eastern Congo harks from a different age to the products they will become. Filthy ...

Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones. But some artisanal mines are run by armed groups involved in massacres of ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of gold bars and $400,000 in cash and found guilty of illegal activities linked ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s top cobalt supplier, is courting new mining investors from Saudi Arabia to help it diversify and curb overreliance on companies from China ...

Hundreds of mining companies ... country's riches be used to help local communities. The eastern Congo is abundant with reserves of gold, diamonds and minerals which are widely used in ...

KINSHASA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a probe into the embezzlement of over $300 million from state miner Gecamines between 2012 and 2020, the justice ministry ...