The group's ultimate goal is to establish a “caliphate” in Central Africa, similar to ISIS’s vision in Iraq and Syria. A ...

M23 insurgents control one of the planet's largest sources of coltan, a mineral prized by high-tech industries. Dislodging ...

Illegal gold mining in Africa spiked in August 2025 as record prices and cartel activity fuelled a surge in illicit ...

To reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar and build its own capacity to influence the international monetary system, China is ...

The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions against an armed group aligned with Congo's military as well as a Congolese ...

Despite a Qatari-facilitated cease-fire and U.S.-brokered peace agreement, fighting has intensified in recent weeks in the ...

Kinross Gold edges past AngloGold Ashanti with stronger stock gains, upbeat estimates and a robust project pipeline.

Uganda bets on ICGLR’s mineral certification mechanism as it battles for legitimacy in the global gold market COVER STORY | ...

U.S. entrepreneurs have set their sights on Rubaya’s coltan as President Trump seeks a peace deal to end the conflict and ...

Twelve people have been rescued from an informal gold mine in eastern Congo that collapsed over the weekend, trapping an unknown number of the thousands of miners working there, the provincial ...

Africa received a strong thumbs up during the second-quarter presentation of Barrick as one of its “main cash generators”.