Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, ...

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds of men labor by hand ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's four-month ban on cobalt exports is under review, the country's mines minister, Kizito Pakabomba, said at a cobalt industry conference in Singapore on Wednesday, ...

An alliance of regional African leadership and oversight of resource extraction is essential to promote stability, write Faraan O Rahim and coauthors On 25 April 2025, foreign ministers from ...

The plaintiffs alleged Starbucks violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, or TVPRA. They accused the ...

alleging that they benefited from child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The plaintiffs were either guardians of children killed in tunnel collapses or children who ...

KoBold Metals plans billion-dollar investments in DRC to unlock ethical cobalt ... concerns regarding its mining practices, which NPR dubbed "modern-day slavery." KoBold's Machine Prospector ...

Australia is able to produce 9 out of 10 mineral elements required to produce lithium-ion batteries, such as lithium, nickel and cobalt ... China now dominates mining and refining of many critical ...

Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United States over a proposed “minerals-for-security” pact could threaten China’s long-standing dominance in the central African nation ...