As we look towards 2050, we foresee global copper demand increasing by 70% to reach 50 million tonnes annually. This will be driven by copper's rol ...

The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.

DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world’s coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops.

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

Negotiations have consistently failed because DRC is poorly led, the people are deeply divided and fighting amongst ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

With fears of a regional conflagration spiraling, the Kenyan presidency announced on Monday that Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame would attend a joint summit ...

In a fiery session of Parliament, EFF MP Elsabe Ntlangwini accused President Ramaphosa of ulterior motives in deploying SANDF troops to the DRC.

While the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) scramble toend the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a war of words between South ...

Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, has long been portrayed as a champion of economic transformation and a ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...