Rwanda-backed M32 rebels now control some 70% of the territory in eastern Congo's North Kivu province. They've been advancing ...

"They [the U.S.] are now direct beneficiaries of instability in Congo, looting the natural resources to benefit their ...

Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and ...

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Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and smartphones. It also has substantial gold, diamond, copper and cobalt reserves.

Analysis - With at least 40,000 coerced into mining coltan, and several global tech brands directly implicated in funding conflict, pressure needs to bear on stopping the war as an imperative for the ...

With unemployment on the rise and a downturn in diamond demand, can Botswana's new administration succeed in driving economic diversification? In Ethiopia, despite efforts to reduce fuel dependence ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The end of one of the world's deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to contain it. Congo desperately ...