LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

By John Cannon The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has ...

What is their long-term goal and what should world leaders be doing to stop the massacres and human rights abuses? COMMENT | ...

Fierce fighting between government forces and M23 rebels in the DRC has led to a horrific humanitarian crisis, with thousands ...

With Kenya running out of road on access to capital markets, the government needs creative approaches to funding development.

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

Middlemen and local militias steal billions from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) cobalt and coltan trade, fuelling conflict and leaving the nation poor, according to a political analyst.

For DRC’s other valuable minerals including coltan and cobalt, the scale of the plunder remains unclear. In December, DRC sued subsidiaries of Apple in Belgium and France, accusing the company ...

Despite possessing vast mineral wealth, including significant deposits of copper, cobalt and gold, the Democratic Republic of ...