Holding an emergency meeting following advances by the 23 March Movement, or M23, towards the city of Goma in the Democratic ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

The fresh offensive by the M23 rebels and Rwanda forces in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) coincides with the ...

The DRC is the world's largest producer of coltan, said Ecofin Agency, from which tantalum – indispensable for manufacturing phones and laptops – is extracted. Nearly 70% of the world's ...

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

Rwanda has illicitly benefited from the plundering of DRC mineral wealth for decades, particularly coltan and gold, via smuggling. Analysts estimate that Rwanda's mineral exports, which surpass $1 ...

The DRC is endowed with substantial mineral wealth, including cobalt and coltan, vital for electronics and electric vehicles. However, the exploitation of these resources has often failed to ...

Mineral trade, including the illegal trafficking of gold and coltan, is a lucrative business that allegedly benefits Rwanda while destabilizing the DRC. Dr. Hassan Khannenje, the Director of the ...

Hundreds of thousands have fled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ahead of rebels who have ... minerals in high demand such as gold, tin and coltan, a key component of mobile phones and ...

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risks spilling over into a regional ... including the mining region of Rubaya which has rich deposits of coltan, a mineral used in the production ...

For several months, the rebels have also controlled Rubaya, a mining town in North Kivu that harbors one of the world’s largest coltan deposits ... eastern part of the DRC.” ...

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