Images of devastation in Goma have begun to shift attention toward the crisis in DR Congo, pushing celebrities to boycott Rwanda.

This cobalt can come at a high human price. Seven years ago, revelations about dire working conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into the world’s headlines after Amnesty ...

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

Tech companies are trying to clean up the way they source cobalt, a key ingredient in ... conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo . Photo: Alexandra Wexler/The Wall Street Journal ...

Two thirds of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. After producing just 800 metric tons in 1994, the yearly output was 98,000 metric tons by 2020.

Gecamines, which holds minority stakes in several of the world's largest copper and cobalt projects, has long been dogged by ...

There have been many accidents in DR Congo's informal mines (file photo ... DR Congo has rich reserves of minerals like cobalt, diamonds, copper and gold, but its people remain among the poorest ...