Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced late on Monday that they will pause their ...

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

Rebel group M23, aligned with Rwanda, says it seized the key trading hub of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. M23 ...

A rebel group aligned with Rwanda says it seized a key trading hub in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising the prospect of a full-blown war between the two Central African nations.Most Read ...

Rwanda allegedly funded European clubs and a potential full-scale war by trafficking Congo’s essential minerals.

As the Group of Seven nations demanded that the Rwanda-backed militia halt an offensive that has shaken the eastern part of ...

titanium ore, zircon and tantalum ore. Chinese companies operating overseas now need to declare more than 41 types of mineral products, compared with 32 before. One of the additional items is ...

Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what lawyers for the central African country have ...

He also discusses the bloody history behind the mining of their ore in the heart of Africa with Sophia Pickles of human rights organisation Global Witness. And the BBC challenges the Rwandan ...

taking areas where coltan – the ore from which tantalum is extracted – is mined. Like scores of other armed groups operating in the area, the M23 began as an outfit defending the rights of an ...