Africans are confronted today with a mirage of crisis. The challenges we face as a continent, and as a unique race of people are not merely political skirmishes. These challenges bordered on lack of ...

Trump says Kyiv has ‘no cards to play’ and he is ‘sick’ of Zelensky in new attack - White House has claimed Zelensky should ...

Trump’s attack was echoed by his South African-born billionaire backer Elon Musk ... does require fair compensation for legitimate expropriations,” the DA said. The mining minister, Gwede Mantashe of ...

China is reaping the rewards of its massive mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of surging ...

Consider Gaza: Thousands of Israelis and Gazans died in the war that erupted after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 ... Late last month, eastern Congo erupted into war. U.N. malfeasance made ...

A lightning advance in Congo’s mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion’s illegal mining revenues, with analysts predicting a further surge in illicit trade in ...

For more than a year, M23 has controlled Congo's coltan-mining region of Rubaya, generating an estimated US$800,000 per month through a production tax, according to the United Nations. Coltan is ...

The Lobito Corridor project, which will upgrade the railway between the Angolan port of Lobito and Congo's copper mines, ...

Illicit mining and smuggling fuel conflicts in a region ... about the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with fears that the violence could spread across the region.

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over ...