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HRW has accused Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of executing civilians in Congo’s Goma during February offensive. At least 21 ...
The conflict in eastern Congo is rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral ...
The Rwanda-backed group shows no signs of ending a prolonged offensive that has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe in the country ...
The Rubaya mines have been at the center of the fighting ... The U.N. has accused both the Congolese army and the M23 rebels of human rights abuses. Congo is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a ...
In recent days, US lawmakers and international experts have warned that President Donald Trump ’s proposed ...
Deep in the green hills of eastern Congo, the mining site at Rubaya hums with the sound of generators. Thousands work to extract strategic minerals essential for the production of phones, batteries, ...
KINSHASA, Congo — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International ... After capturing the key mining town of Masisi in North-Kivu province earlier this month, fighting intensified around ...
Unfair labor practices and human-rights abuses don’t disqualify ... deny that CAR diamonds are being laundered through Congo, but mining-­ministry officials admit that it is all but impossible ...
The disintegration of Gécamines transformed Congo’s mining landscape ... and plans to “gradually eradicate all forms of human-rights violation with a responsible supply chain.”) ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International ... After capturing the key mining town of Masisi in North-Kivu province earlier this month, fighting intensified ...