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

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

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

Image by Elodie Toto for Mongabay. On Ngoma’s plot in Messock, the scars left by Mac Congo’s gold mining operations remain stark, even though the company vacated the site two years ago.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising ...

The court, in Congo’s eastern city of Bukavu, the capital of Congo’s gold-rich South Kivu province ... said that illegal mining activities rob the local community of potential revenue.

A suspected gas explosion at a department store in Taiwan's central city of Taichung killed at least four people and injured ...

The hunt for tech-industry minerals in eastern Congo harks from a different age to the products they will become. Filthy ...