Since April 2024, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group has maintained control over Rubaya’s lucrative coltan mining sites.

Banks remain closed, cash points are all but empty and residents of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, are forced to ...

In the mist-veiled highlands of Masisi territory, a silent war for control over one of the world's most strategic minerals is ...

Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some ...

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, ...

Congolese minerals such as tungsten, tantalum and tin, which Kinshasa has long accused neighbouring Rwanda of illegally exploiting, could be exported legitimately to Rwanda for processing under the ...

Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive displacements and civilian suffering, and because the whole region is in crisis, ...

Since January 2025, more than 71,000 people fleeing ongoing violence in the eastern part of the DR Congo have crossed into ...

A PEACE deal being negotiated by the US between Congo and Rwanda could allow for the legitimate export of Congolese minerals ...

Photo taken on May 7, 2025 shows miners at work at a coltan mining site in the town of Rubaya, the Democratic Republic of the ...

A Congolese former prime minister was convicted of embezzling millions from a huge failed agriculture venture, in one of the highest-profile corruption cases brought under President Felix Tshisekedi ...