Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

M23 rebels staging an offensive in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will withdraw their forces from the town of Walikale, which they took control of this week, in support of ...

It is the latest escalation in an area that has long been victim of a patchwork of armed actors scrambling for dominance over the region's vast resources of coltan ... with the DRC's consent ...

The mineral-rich eastern DRC remains a focal point of conflict, with various armed groups vying for control over resources such as coltan, tin, tantalum, and gold. According to the United Nations ...

M23 seizes mining hub, with rebel alliance leader saying call for a ceasefire from DRC and Rwanda ‘doesn’t concern us’. Rwanda denies link to M23 rebels as trade in smuggled DRC minerals is ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will begin political consultations ... with various armed groups vying for control over resources such as coltan, tin, tantalum, and gold.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have taken control of two major cities in eastern DR Congo in the past two months [Getty Images] ...

(DR Congo has 60 per cent of the world’s coltan). The government is 1,600 kilometres away, and most of the mineral wealth is stolen. The other reason is that just across the DRC’s eastern border is ...

Uganda has deployed troops in the DR Congo with its consent since 2021 to counter an Islamist miiltia.

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