The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to crack down on companies that purchase or source minerals from its conflict-ridden ...

A U.S. congressional watchdog has found no evidence that a 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conflict minerals ...

The M23 rebel group has captured the town of Kalembe in eastern Congo, intensifying its insurgency. Accusations of Rwanda's ...

The people of one of the world’s wealthiest countries in terms of natural resources have been condemned to violence and poverty by US-backed foreign interventions to secure mineral wealth for ...

Italian priest Davide Marcheselli has been fighting for years against Chinese companies illegally mining gold in the town of ...

The Conference under the theme, “The Blood of the Holy Martyrs, Seeds of Hope for an Integral Ecology”, was organised as an ...

A Stanford Congo Week teach-in discussed human rights and environmental issues associated with the mining of critical ...

Analysis - The violence wrought by the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 Movement is often narrowly framed as intended to control eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's resource-rich mining sites. The ...

The government of Congo has canceled an auction for 27 sites earmarked for oil exploration, citing late submissions and a ...

On Sept. 26, the Carleton University Human Rights Society called on the university to divest from companies sourcing cobalt.

Democratic Republic of Congo's army on Tuesday said it had taken back the eastern town of Kalembe a day after it was seized ...

GOMA, Congo -- For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out. The fighting that forced her from her home, the squalid conditions in ...