ITSCI resumes 3T mineral traceability in Walikale, DRC, after March 2025 suspension Risks persist from illegal taxes and armed group involvement along transport routes Smuggling and certification ...

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

Instead, these agreements facilitate the takeover of our natural wealth by countries like Belgium and the United States ... François Kamate is a young climate and human rights defender from North Kivu ...

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

Ugandan soldiers said they ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

By Blaise Kasereka Makuta Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the borders between modern-day Democratic Republic of ...

President Samson Ndayishimiye speaks exclusively to Cyclingnews about DRC conflict, reducing costs and the Worlds’ impact on African cycling ...

In 1958, the Belgian colonial administration permitted local elections in the Belgian Congo. In North Kivu, the Kinyarwanda-speaking community secured 80% of the vote, ...

A coltan mine in Rubaya, North Kivu. Image credit: MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti It is worth mentioning that, in July 2024, the then-newly-elected Governor of the South Kivu Province, Professor Jean-Jacques ...

Kigali accuses Belgium of using “lies and manipulation to secure an unjustified hostile opinion of Rwanda.” Coltan boom coincided with escalation in war Global Witness says its analysis of trade data, ...

Both nations declared their independence from Belgium in the 1960s. The United States established diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, and in 1962 with Rwanda ...

"With the insecurity we're seeing in the region, it's sometimes difficult to access the raw material, which is cocoa," said Roger Marora, master chocolatier and a native of North Kivu province.