The 43-year-old Katanga native, who had been at the helm of the DRC’s state-owned mining company Gécamines, now has the daunting task of forming a new government. In recent weeks, several names of ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo imposed a two-day lockdown in part of its copper and cobalt heartland on Monday, as two of the country's largest mines took steps to reduce staff ...

The United Nations called it historic: a deal that granted legal documents to local communities and enabled them to benefit from their forest resources in Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo imposed a two-day lockdown in part of its copper and cobalt heartland and a union official said a Glencore mine in a neighbouring province had ...

Communities near the Frontier mine in Haut-Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are seeing the benefits of a new agricultural project, focused on equipping local farmers with the ...

We are writing as a group of international and Congolese civil society organisations concerned with the measures taken by major industrial mining companies in Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces in DR ...

An operation is underway to repatriate thousands of Congolese refugees from Zambia to the homes they fled four years ago in fear of their lives. Inter-ethnic clashes and fighting between Congolese ...