After a well-known warlord escaped from prison in Katanga, the Democratic Republic of Congo's most stable province has been terrorised for the last year by a group demanding independence for the ...

But if you buy shares in a really great company, you can more than double your money. For instance the Katanga Mining Limited share price is 200% higher than it was three years ago. How nice ...

Jeroen Cuvelier, Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo), Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s ...

Masengo argued that Katanga remained poor while the money was misappropriated in Kinshasa. He had worked as a consultant in the capital for large mining companies and he’d seen how the money was ...

This is a dead city, a battlefield where vultures circle overhead and the smell of panic is stronger than the stench of the unswept, palm-fringed boulevards. The shops are barred, the restaurants ...

The mineral-rich southeastern province of Katanga in preindependence days supplied 60% of the revenue of the Congo government and most of the wealth the Belgians drew from the colony.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Katanga crosses had become symbols of power among local kingdoms that were competing for control over sources of copper. The crosses remained an important part of ...