An embassy is an inviolate premise, a foreign territory indeed. This is bad for diplomacy. It is important for the DRC not to ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

Analysis - Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who stunned the world with their seizure of the major city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, declared a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with ...

Oversupply and shifting battery chemistries are set to define the cobalt market in 2025. Prices — subdued by excess supply ...

Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi ... world’s third biggest producer of copper and its biggest producer of cobalt. The company’s sales did fall some 20% last year, but that was ...

Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China Hefei National Research Center for ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s top cobalt supplier, is courting new mining investors from Saudi Arabia to help it diversify and curb overreliance on companies from China ...

highlighted a decrease in the number of children working in cobalt mines in the Haut-Katanga and Lualaba provinces. However, the reported figures have sparked controversy. Prior to 2019 ...