At least 200 were killed when mines collapsed at a coltan mining site in eastern Congo this week, rebel authorities say. The Rubaya mines, where the disaster occurred, supply a key metal for ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has imposed a sweeping three-month suspension of mining activities in parts of South Kivu province, targeting operations in two key territories as authorities move to ...

The rebels are hoping that Washington’s push to secure non-Chinese sources of critical minerals could translate into ...

Their eyes shining from dust-white faces latticed by trails of sweat from working hundreds of feet underground, the thousands of miners who burrow into a rebel-held hillside know the risks – and are ...

Journalists investigating a fatal mining disaster in eastern Congo were denied access, tightening a dangerous blackout around a mineral-fuelled conflict. This statement was originally published on ipi ...

According to the US Geological Survey, Congo is the world’s biggest source of tantalum, which is extracted from coltan and ...

JOHANNESBURG, April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. companies are showing "significant" interest in Democratic Republic of Congo mining assets, including the rebel-held Rubaya area, a State Department official ...

The mines ministry confirms that around 70 children are among the victims, with many injured evacuated to health facilities ...

The Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has brought fresh suffering to people already dealing with the impact of armed conflicts driven by an inte ...