GOMA, Congo (AP) — A landslide earlier this week collapsed several mines at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, ...

More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the ...

Africa holds close to a third of the world’s known reserves of future-facing minerals. These include the metals driving the global energy transition – copper, cobalt, manganese, graphite, nickel, ...

The two men are the latest victims of a widening crackdown on Congo’s opposition. The failure of an American-brokered deal to end a conflict in the east that pits Congo’s army against Rwandan troops ...

Rwanda-backed M23 is the most powerful of over 100 armed groups vying for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo, near the ...

The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five climbs offer under-the-radar alternatives with challenging trails and wild ...

The Access, Usage, and Quality framework, rooted in financial inclusion theory, provides a robust structure for analyzing how DFS and crowdfunding expand access, improve usage rates, and enhance ...

The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has historically served as a primary hindquarter of European colonialism, particularly under King Leopold II and later the Belgian state. Its vast ...

Nigeria’s AFCON 2025 run shows talent thrives on world‑class pitches—and now is the time to invest in football’s foundations.

An analysis led by the University of Leicester shows that the African continent lost around 106 billion kilograms of forest biomass each year between 2010 and 2017. New research suggests that Africa’s ...