Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

Last April, they seized Rubaya, whose mines produce an estimated 15 percent ... claiming to defend the long-marginalised Tutsi minority in Congo. "They are trying to dismantle the traditional systems ...

It is also mined in Rwanda, Brazil and Nigeria but at least 40% - and maybe more – of the element's global supply comes from DR Congo and some of the key mining areas are now under the control ...

The northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to one of Africa’s richest goldfields. Competition to control the gold mines and trading routes has spurred the bloody ...

Most of that cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is mined by what are euphemistically called artisanal miners—desperate young men, women, and children who have no ...

Machinery is seen at the Congolese state mining company Gecamines' copper plant in Kambove. [Reuters] More than $400 million in tax advances and loans that Democratic Republic of Congo's state ...

China North Industries Corp., also known as Norinco has offered to increase the Congo government stake in its bid to purchase ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on ...

Norinco has now proposed that the Democratic Republic of the Congo increase its interest in Chemaf's Mutoshi and Etoile mines to as much as 15% from 5% currently - at no additional cost - subject ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - China North Industries Corp, known as Norinco, has offered to adjust its offer to buy copper and cobalt assets owned by Chemaf SA by raising the Congo government's stake ...