The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

THE WAR in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... with its resources extracted for profit while its people suffer from extreme poverty. Despite the DRC being one of the wealthiest ...

What is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is Africa’s second largest and fourth most populous country, with a surface area equivalent to Western Europe. It rests on approximately $24 trillion ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a wealth of natural resources, including metals and minerals such as gold, tin and coltan, essential for manufacturing mobile phones and batteries for ...

Rwanda has economic as well as security interests. Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other ...

Early in the week, by many accounts, the so-called M23 rebels had effectively taken Goma, the biggest and most important city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lofty names can be ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 recently captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo where ... of looting natural resources, especially gold.

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... “Access to natural resources is at the heart of this ...

Oakland, California, Usa — The fresh offensive by the M23 rebels and Rwanda forces in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) coincides with ... not benefiting economically from their own ...