The AU Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa crystallized tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

Katanga seceded from the Congo for three years ... The DRC's impoverishment continues apace as South African, Kazakh, Swiss and, with increasing influence, Chinese mining companies maintain their ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

Crane manufacturer Condra is solidifying its position as a supplier of cranes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

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

Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

“African Rainbow Minerals Limited (ARM ... rescued ALM and executed a takeover of a valuable copper mine outside a Katanga ...

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.