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

The majority of the people in eastern DRC are Tutsis who have strong ties with other Tutsi groups across the border. Tutsis ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 group said it would not attend Tuesday's peace talks with the DR Congo government in the Angolan ...

The rebel M23 armed group has seized territory in areas rich in gold and coltan, an important mineral used in the ...

The war economy in the DRC is not limited to local actors. The world's leading technology companies are indirectly becoming a part of this system. Minerals such as coltan and tantalum are used in many ...

Rwanda also maintains de facto control over the armed group in order to exploit the eastern DRC's rich veins of valuable minerals such as gold and coltan, according to the report. Coltan is used ...

Ravaged by conflict for 30 years, eastern DRC is believed to hold between 60% and 80% of the world’s reserves of coltan, an essential mineral for manufacturing electronic equipment. UN experts ...

Today, illegal mining and smuggling from the DRC’s mines – which provide 70 percent of the global supply of coltan and cobalt that powers electronics – have largely continued, as have deaths ...

Rwanda also maintains de facto control over the armed group in order to exploit the eastern DRC’s rich veins of valuable minerals such as gold and coltan, according to the report.