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

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, ...

Matata Ponyo Mapon, who served as prime minister from 2012-2016 under then-President Joseph Kabila, was convicted on Tuesday in a case involving the embezzlement of $245 million. He was sentenced to ...

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.

A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for ...

Brazil and Bolivia led forest loss in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and ...