DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting peace while stemming support to ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...

Kabarebe, a former Rwandan general, is a Rwandan government liaison to M23 who orchestrates RDF support for the armed group and manages its generation of revenue from the DRC's mineral resources ...

In a statement by the US State Department, Gen Kabarebe, Kanyuka and two companies are linked to violence and human rights abuses in eastern DRC. “The United States is sanctioning today two ...

of exploiting the conflict to plunder trillions of dollars of the DRC’s mineral resources like gold and coltan that are critical to global electronics production.

The M23 militia, backed by the Rwandan Defence Force, isn’t fighting for territory alone — they’re fighting for control of the world’s largest reserves of cobalt, coltan and lithium.

Rwanda is the world's largest exporter of coltan, which is crucial to the nation's economy ... Until now, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has rejected accusations by the DRC, the UN and Burundi that ...

The M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern DRC’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth, critical in the production of much of the world’s technology.

After seizing the Bukavu airport, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and penetrating its outskirts on Friday, they entered the heart of the city on Sunday.

Rwanda is the world's largest exporter of coltan, which is crucial to the ... claiming he has attacked the DRC and violated its territorial integrity. "We are determined to restore the integrity ...

known for its coltan deposits. The ongoing conflict between the M23 and the DRC government is deeply rooted in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and long-standing ethnic tensions between ...