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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a phenomenal film—brilliantly crafted. Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, that history tried to sever ...

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

The capture of North Kivu’s provincial capital, Goma, by the M23 armed group last month has multiplied international coverage ...

The armed group has thus taken over a site as strategic as it is profitable. Since it took over the mining town on 30 April, the M23 has controlled “the monthly trade and transport of 120 tonnes of ...

Nyabibwe, a hub for mining precious metals like gold and coltan, marks a significant win for the rebels amid ongoing violence. Congo's Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya voiced defiance, stating ...

The supply chain for these minerals lacks transparency, particularly since M23 seized key mining areas like Rubaya. While China is the dominant buyer of coltan from Rwanda, Okenda and other civil ...

The city, bordering Rwanda, is a regional centre for the mining business Over the past year, the M23 has made rapid advances across the mineral-rich east of DR Congo, taking areas where coltan ...

Congo-K’s market in coltan, a mineral from which tantalum and nobium are extracted, is undergoing a major facelift. With mining officially suspended in the two Kivu provinces since last September in a ...

DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world’s coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops. United Nations experts, rights groups and analysts say Rwanda smuggles ...