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 ...

Congo is the world’s top producer of tantalum ... and mobile phones – is also under threat. “Lumbishi and its gold mines are likely to prove a significant source of revenue for M23, in ...

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.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

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.

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

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution ...