But our research has found that the DRC can influence the shape of the cobalt market, in which it is the single largest producer. Cobalt is a very important metal. It reduces overheating in ...

Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group are ‘moving in the right direction’, a diplomatic source told AFP as negotiations continue between the ...

AFP via Getty Images The DRC is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a key mineral used to make the lithium-ion batteries that go into electric vehicles and smartphones.

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

Since the beginning of 2023, more than 22,000 cases of mpox are believed to have occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with more than 1,200 deaths.

The Rwandan-backed M23 recently captured Goma, the regional capital of a mineral-rich part of the DRC, where two devastating wars in the region between 1996 and 2003 cost millions of lives.

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the Rwandan-backed militant group M23 which recently captured swaths of land in the east.

A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was signed in Washington D.C. on Friday by officials of the two African nations.

For example, the world's largest peatland complex, which started forming 10,600 years ago, was only identified there in 2017 . The greenhouse gas fluxes of Congo's tropical forests were also ...

How the world keeps failing eastern DRC Old ‘peace-building’ schemes are obsolete in a country that is seeing new and ever-changing political and conflict dynamics.

According to the DRC Ministry of Public Health, 394 cases and 30 deaths have been reported so far in the Panzi health zone.