Since April 2024, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group has maintained control over Rubaya’s lucrative coltan mining sites.

Matata Ponyo was convicted in a case involving the embezzlement of $245 million and was sentenced to 10 years forced labour.

The charges relate to a massive corn farming project launched under Kabila’s administration, which collapsed in 2017.

Congolese minerals such as tungsten, tantalum and tin, which Kinshasa has long accused neighbouring Rwanda of illegally exploiting, could be exported legitimately to Rwanda for processing under the ...

Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, ...

Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m) of public funds by the Congolese Constitutional ...

Once a quiet transit hub just 27 kilometers west of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, Sake has become both a symbol of eastern Congo's unraveling and a strategic foothold in the resurgence of ...