American firms have generally avoided Congo on account of its conflicts, corruption and distance. Meanwhile, Chinese rivals ...

A rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo said he and his forces will withdraw from the city of Uvira after the ...

Glencore has become the first miner to export cobalt under Democratic Republic of Congo's new quotas, sending a small initial shipment to test the system, one government source and two trade sources ...

Congo’s mining lobby has called for urgent talks with the government to clarify new cobalt export rules, and said that legal ambiguities and compliance hurdles could delay shipments and disrupt global ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

Carrying her sore-pocked daughter across her decaying field, Helene Mvubu says she is one of thousands to have fallen victim to the toxic waste defiling the Democratic Republic of Congo's ...

Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a sweeping national ...

A study published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity in September describes the extensive environmental toll of mining for ...

The security crisis in eastern DRC is escalating after two rebel groups, both fighting the government, joined forces.

The moment provides President Donald Trump — who has repeatedly and with a measure of exaggeration boasted of brokering peace in some of the world's most entrenched conflicts — another chance to tout ...

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