Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

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

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

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

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...

The conflict between Rwanda-backed forces and the DR Congo is often presented as a struggle to control the valuable minerals ...

the armed groups want to occupy the whole of eastern Congo because of its land, its gold mines and, above all, its cobalt mines. Gold nuggets can be found by simply digging along the rivers with ...

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

M23 rebels' advance in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo puts green minerals rush in the spotlight.

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

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