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, ...

KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has told the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo it wants to develop one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits.

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to find an ally in the US in its fight against rebel group M23. It is eying ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a vast country in Africa with rich mineral deposits that have been fought over for decades. In recent months, the rebel group M23 has expanded its control in ...

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

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

DRC's mineral rich east has been blighted by conflict since the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. More than 100 armed groups compete for power, territory and the proceeds of mining.

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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 ...