Glencore said it rejected an unsolicited approach from an unnamed buyer for its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of last year.

Battle for control of DRC fuelled by increasing demand for minerals such as coltan and cobalt, crucial in smartphones and laptops ...

But thanks to the company's two massive copper mines in the Congo it has rapidly grown to become the world's largest producer of cobalt, which comes as a copper by-product. Both TFM and KFM mines ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

Gécamines SA, Congo's state-owned mining company, has filed an application to acquire a division of Chemaf Resources Ltd. a few months after announcing its intention to block the sale of the copper ...