The Bisie tin mine, around 60 kilometers (35 miles) northwest of the town, accounts for the majority of tin exports from North Kivu province. Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal. From news to ...

A Trump administration official says the United States is talking with conflict-plagued Congo about developing its mineral ...

Joseph Stéphane Mukumadi, the former governor of Sankuru province, on Thursday, April 3, publicly declared that he joined the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) rebellion and urged the Congolese to ...

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land ...

The humanitarian crisis has worsened considerably in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo , especially in North Kivu, since the end of January. In Goma, North Kivu's capital, violent ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battling Congo’s army captured another strategic town in the country’s mineral-rich east, residents and insurgents said Thursday, despite ...

Taking Walikale gives the rebels control of a road linking four provinces in eastern Congo — North Kivu, South Kivu ... Pronczuk reported from Dakar, Senegal.

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