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 lightning advance in Congo’s mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion’s illegal mining revenues, ...

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

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday ...

Rwanda-backed rebels overran the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province where the company’s tin ...

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

Reports from eastern DR Congo are not reassuring. The ongoing war in North Kivu is escalating into a regional conflict that is spreading far beyond Goma. Militiamen belonging to the armed group M23, ...

The violence in eastern Congo has escalated. Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers have been killed by M23 rebels, while ...

(Reuters) -Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels seeking to expand their grip on eastern Congo in a weeks-old ...

Numbi, an eastern mining area in South Kivu rich in gold, tourmaline, tin, tantalum and tungsten - so-called 3T minerals used ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

Battle for control of DRC fuelled by increasing demand for minerals such as coltan and cobalt, crucial in smartphones and ...