On a narrow trail muddied by rain, a slight man in a thin T-shirt emerges from the thick of a remote jungle, down where Colombia ends and Venezuela and Brazil begin. He’s striding quickly, despite ...

, REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

RUBAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks ...

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key ...

KINSHASA – Societe Miniere de Bisunzu, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest coltan miner, resumed purchases of the ore after a three-month shutdown at one of the country’s largest deposits.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. I come from Mbeere South Sub-County (formerly Gachoka Constituency, a place with no inch ...

The new face of mining is a collaboration that allows miners and company alike to profit -- while proving to companies such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. that what they mine doesn’t fund ...

Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), helping fund an insurgency in the African country, according to ...

Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry sacks full of crushed rocks up winding paths cut into the slopes. The ...

I come from Mbeere South Sub-County (formerly Gachoka Constituency, a place with no inch of tarmac road of its own, apart from the bypass tarmac road from Embu-Machakos bypass that we used to travel ...