Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was ...

Hundreds of people have been brutally killed and more than 150,000 have fled their homes in remote parts of Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local residents of the area ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

Moise Katumbi, who calls himself the “Moses of Katanga,” wants to become a reform-minded president of the central African nation. (JTA) — Like many powerful politicians in Africa ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

There were no African army officers ... The main mining area, Katanga, declared itself a separate state under Moise Tshombe, but with strategic support and encouragement from Belgian mining ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.