Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

Kazakhstan-backed Eurasian Resources Group plans to review some of its mining permits in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

This cobalt can come at a high human price. Seven years ago, revelations about dire working conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into the world’s headlines after Amnesty ...

RIYADH, Jan 14 (Reuters) - 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 ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 15 (Reuters ... and found guilty of illegal activities linked to the artisanal mining sector. The trio are the first Chinese nationals to stand trial ...

Attacks on quarries and mining cooperatives are frequent in the region as more than 120 armed groups compete for land and resources in eastern Congo. In 2022, a Congolese employee of a Chinese ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo--For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating ...

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in prison for engaging in activities related to illegal mining. The court, in Congo’s eastern ...

West Africa newsperson Sam Mednick uncovered the extent of mining within the contested boundaries of a protected heritage site in eastern Congo. Mednick was tipped off to Chinese companies expanding ...