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

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

The violence in eastern Congo has escalated. Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers have been killed by M23 rebels, while ...

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

Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

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 ...

A lightning advance in Congo's mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion's illegal mining revenues, ...

It’s been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery Story by Aryn Baker/Tshikapa Photographs by Lynsey Addario for ...

China’s Zijin Mining Group Co. aims to start producing lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo early next year from one of the world’s largest deposits of the battery metal. Zijin is ...

M23 rebels said they have advanced into Goma, a large city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of ...

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 ...