The Democratic Republic of Congo is seeing a significant increase in acts of sexual violence against girls and young women. A ...

Zimbabwean defender Munasha Garananga, German wingback Felix Passlack, Irish teenager Owen Elding and Croatian forward Ante Suto, as well as English pair Dane Scarlett and Kai Andrews, were all late ...

DRC’s state-owned Gécamines SA announced the sale of copper and cobalt to the U.S. following an agreement signed between the two countries at the end of 2025. The minerals agreement was signed ...

Valery Kyembo was leading an inspection of his community's protected forest reserve deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining belt when two armed Congolese soldiers blocked their way. Behind ...

The fall of Uvira, the second largest city in South Kivu province, to the Rwandan-backed armed group March 23 Movement (M23) on 10 December must catalyse the European Union (EU) and its member states’ ...

A bridge at a mine in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a regional government official said Sunday. The bridge at the Kalando ...

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Over the last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embattled by a new wave of conflict and atrocity crimes. At the beginning of the year, M23 rebels seized several regions, including ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a prolonged crisis, exacerbated by the recent cuts to USAID. Karla Capers/Oxfam Oxfam’s CEO and President Abby Maxman shares her experience traveling to DRC, ...

The DRC government's purpose is to achieve higher cobalt prices. Fastmarkets quoted on October 14, 2025: “The Democratic Republic of Congo, as the world’s leading producer, now holds real leverage to ...

‘Spillover event’ in which an animal infected humans is likely to be the cause of 47 confirmed cases and 25 deaths. An outbreak of Ebola has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...

Planet China: Seventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. Chinese miners are illegally extracting Congolese gold on a vast ...