Congolese authorities say 70 children died in a landslide at the Rubaya mine, source of much of the world’s coltan.

American company Virtus Minerals is poised to buy Chemaf, a troubled miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the first commercial deal borne out of the growing minerals partnership between ...

Gwede Mantashe criticises the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for its minerals deal with the United States of America The DRC minig minister defended the partnership between his country and the US, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo indicated it’s approving American firm Virtus Minerals Inc.’s purchase of copper and cobalt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The forest area in Likasi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, stretches across an area where mining companies are hunting for ...

Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in ...

A Chinese mining giant has been accused of polluting communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, placing one of Africa’s ...

On today’s show, independent policy think tank the Oakland Institute has come out with a new report about land grabbing and mineral grabbing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo entitled, “Shafted: ...

On today’s show, independent policy think tank the Oakland Institute has come out with a new report about land grabbing and mineral grabbing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo entitled, “Shafted: ...

The global race to secure cobalt, lithium and rare earths, the minerals that underpin the electric vehicle revolution, is reshaping Africa’s resource-rich heartlands. In the Congo Basin, home to ...