JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Africa's biggest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are ...

In Stanford's first inaugural Congo Week, students and experts celebrate Congolese heritage and discuss important issues regarding the DRC.

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary ...

As the Mining Indaba conference approaches, Africa’s largest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are working to secure deals that enable them to profit from metal trading.

Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as M23, say they are protecting ethnic Tutsis, the minority group massacred in a 1994 genocide.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

Analysis - A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes ...

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...