Since April 2024, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group has maintained control over Rubaya’s lucrative coltan mining sites.

SANDF soldiers have been deployed in Goma for over 15 months for peacekeeping efforts amid ongoing conflict between the DRC’s ...

Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some ...

In the mist-veiled highlands of Masisi territory, a silent war for control over one of the world's most strategic minerals is ...

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

Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive ...

Photo taken on May 7, 2025 shows miners at work at a coltan mining site in the town of Rubaya, the Democratic Republic of the ...

Congolese minerals such as tungsten, tantalum and tin, which Kinshasa has long accused neighbouring Rwanda of illegally exploiting, could be exported legitimately to Rwanda for processing under the ...

Since January 2025, more than 71,000 people fleeing ongoing violence in the eastern part of the DR Congo have crossed into ...

A Congolese former prime minister was convicted of embezzling millions from a huge failed agriculture venture, in one of the highest-profile corruption cases brought under President Felix Tshisekedi ...

The charges relate to a massive corn farming project launched under Kabila’s administration, which collapsed in 2017. Investigations into the failed initiative began in 2021 under President Félix ...