The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ...

The crown jewel in the M23's expansion is the DRC's largest coltan mine from which the group generates around $800,000 in ...

Although there are no details of an official proposal for a deal with the US, DRC legislators appear to be hoping that the US ...

The crown jewel in the M23's territorial expansion is the DRC's largest coltan mine from which the group generates around $800 000 in revenue each month, according to UN experts. Coltan is a mineral ...

Mining them can "help fund armed conflict". Coltan mining in the DRC has also been linked to "large-scale environmental degradation, human rights abuses, violence and death", said Oluwole Ojewale ...

Bintou Keita, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to the DRC, told the Security Council in a September briefing that coltan trade from Rubaya’s mines is estimated to supply over ...

Rwanda has consistently denied allegations of mineral exploitation. The Luwowo coltan mine in the DRC is one of the few certificated by the UN peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) as conflict free.

that resurfaced in eastern DRC in 2021 and controls many of the region’s mines. Last April, they seized Rubaya, whose mines produce an estimated 15 per cent of the world’s coltan, according to ...

Today, illegal mining and smuggling from the DRC’s mines – which provide 70 percent of the global supply of coltan and cobalt that powers electronics – have largely continued, as have deaths ...

The crown jewel in the M23’s expansion is the DRC’s largest coltan mine from which the group generates around $800,000 in revenue each month, according to UN experts. Coltan is a mineral from ...