Mineral extraction is also highly toxic. Chemicals, like cyanide and solvents, are used to extract minerals from the ore. The ...

The EU’s dependence on countries like China for key raw materials for sectors such as the automotive, renewable energy, and ...

HARARE, March 25 (Xinhua) -- An expanded team of five former African leaders have been appointed to mediate the security crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a joint ...

BURUNDI: Burundi’s president has told the BBC he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda plans to attack his country.

Violence in DR Congo has sent thousands of people fleeing into neighbouring countries. Funding is desperately needed to feed ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi has proposed a minerals deal to Donald Trump in exchange for a security agreement.

President Félix Tshisekedi has proposed a ‘partnership that would provide US with a strategic advantage’. DRC’s negotiations ...

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking for a Ukraine-like minerals deal in ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has taken control of the mining hub of Walikale in DR Congo, local sources said Thursday, ...

Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...

While Trump zeroes in on embattled Ukraine's critical mineral reserves, conflict and inequality clash with efforts for a just energy transition across the globe ...

M23 seizes a key town in eastern DRC, halts operations, evacuates employees, a day after Presidents Kagame and Tshisekedi ...