South Africa will pull its remaining SANDF troops from the UN’s MONUSCO mission in the DRC, ending nearly three decades of peacekeeping as the government cites resource realignment. South African ...

South Africa has announced it will withdraw its troops from the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco), ending nearly three decades of continuous ...

The leader of the AFC/M23 rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a drone attack targeting the airport in the strategic northeastern city of ...

Global Witness is calling for businesses and governments to better consider the human cost of rare earth minerals, following the horrific mine disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently.

Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps It must have been an eerie sight when 35-year-old Dieudoné Muka looked ...

Artisanal miners are an integral part of the entities involved in mining activities. Nous sommes toujours attaqués dans les mines par les creuseurs artisanaux de Musonoie. Hier par exemple, nous avons ...

Following an investigation by The Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to certain health-related queries, the company appears to have removed the AI ...

A mine worker holds bits of coltan ore in the mining town of Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.) Listen Relations between the Congolese government ...

While areas rich in rare minerals may be a blessing for the economies of countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), they can also be a curse for the local populations. They fuel the ...

In 2024, the DRC experienced an uptick in primary forest loss, with 590,000 hectares of forest lost, according to satellite data visualized on Global Forest Watch. Subsistence agriculture continues to ...

The UN decried on Friday a recent attack against civilians perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN described the ...