The Initiative for the Protection of Human Rights called for an independent investigation into the military's role in the ...

The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” in recent years could harm the country’s biodiversity, especially in the Sangha region, ...

The M23 armed group on Thursday denied accusations that its fighters had looted at least 500 kilograms of bullion from ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended for six months a ban on the trading of minerals from dozens of artisanal mining ...

A cholera outbreak has infected more than 600 people at an artisanal gold mine in South Kivu province, overwhelming local health services and exposing severe sanitation challenges in the conflict-hit ...

RUBAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks ...

Authorities say overcrowding and panic - allegedly sparked by soldiers’ gunfire - caused the bridge to fall at the copper and ...

KAMITUGA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Pink painted coffins lined a hillside in eastern Congo on Monday as rescuers filled them with the bodies of victims of a gold mine cave-in, ...