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 ...

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 ...

Accidents are common in DR Congo's mining industry ... DR Congo has rich reserves of minerals like cobalt, diamonds, copper and gold, but its people remain among the poorest in the world following ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Manono project is expected to start production during the first quarter of 2026, a Zijin spokesperson said by email. That would make it the first operating lithium mine in Congo, the world’s ...

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 ...

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 ...