Chemaf agreed to sell its Étoile and Mutoshi copper and cobalt mines to China’s Norinco for $1.4 billion to pay off $900 million in debt. However, Gécamines, Congo's state-owned mining company, ...

Between emerald sea and jungled hills, the Cobre Panama copper mine has fueled mass protests across the Central American country.

The Rwanda-backed M23 group said it would not attend Tuesday's peace talks with the DR Congo government in the Angolan ...

The rebel M23 armed group has seized territory in areas rich in gold and coltan ... Like Ukraine, the DRC needs security ...

KIGALI, (CAJ News) – FOR decades, the Masisi region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stood as a beacon ... claims regarding Rubaya’s coltan mines. Chief among these is the ...

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 which ...

The biggest coltan mine in the world, Rubaya, in the East of the DRC, which produces 120 tonnes of coltan a month, has been in M23-controlled territory since April 2024. The M23 is now at the door ...

“The scale of sexual violence against children in eastern DRC is beyond a crisis – it is a tragedy. We are seeing an alarming increase in cases, not seen in years, with many young survivors ...

Rwanda intervened in the DRC ... coltan fields in Rubaya, in particular, was a critical move that increased the financial power of the M23. Today, the financial resources of the M23 are based on three ...