Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Over 150 women inmates were raped, and many of them then burned to death, in Goma in October last year ... riches, land, rubber, copper, palm oil, and now cobalt, all at the expense of innocent ...

Rwanda is asking Britain for a 50 million-pound ($63.62 million) payment over a cancelled asylum deal, a source close to the ...

Rubber, ivory, gold and diamonds have all wrought ... Mount Nyiragongo, an active volcano, looms over Goma. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay. That instability in the eastern DRC has facilitated ...

Goma thrown into digital darkness ... My people have died for rubber, for gold, for diamonds, for uranium. Now we are dying for cobalt, for lithium. For the devices you cannot live without.

Rwanda is facing global pressure over allegations it supports the M23 group which, since January, has captured swathes of eastern Congo including the cities of Goma and Bukavu ... In 1996 Kabarebe led ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has welcomed the withdrawal of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers who are on a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).