The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

Facing ongoing defeats and diminishing regional support, the Democratic Republic of Congo considers negotiating with M23 ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

A cluster of deaths linked to a mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be the result of a poisoning ...

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

The United States is open to exploring critical minerals partnerships with Congo, the State Department said in a statement to ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated ...