China has gained a dominant position in Africa's critical minerals sector through long-term investments in mining and refining capacity--factors that make it challenging for African countries to ...

Brazil promoted COP30 as both the “Indigenous COP” and the “Amazonian COP,” a summit that would finally center the peoples ...

The rebels advance comes less than a week after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame ...

Mr. Trump last week declared that he had ended the decades-old conflict between Congo and Rwanda when he gathered several ...

Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 says it has taken control of the strategic city of Uvira. This announcement was made Wednesday afternoon by M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka.

Glencore has become the first miner to export cobalt under Democratic Republic of Congo's new quotas, sending a small initial shipment to test the system, one government source and two trade sources ...

Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.

Just days after signing a peace deal brokered by President Trump, the fighting between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo continues, with Rwanda-backed rebels taking a third major city.

A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen. Since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Assad a year ...