U.S. entrepreneurs have set their sights on Rubaya’s coltan as President Trump seeks a peace deal to end the conflict and ...

Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. The ...

Here, we’ll be breaking down an in-depth Reuters investigation into the African nation’s mines and looking into why parties ...

The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions against an armed group aligned with Congo's military as well as a Congolese ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The U.S. government on Tuesday sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit trading in minerals in eastern ...

Ruto and Mnangagwa, co-chairing a virtual extraordinary joint summit on Wednesday of the East African Community (EAC) and the ...

Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry ...

The US has sanctioned Congo’s PARECO armed group, mining firms, and Hong Kong exporters over illicit coltan trade, as renewed ...

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 ...

A senior U.S. government official said the state and treasury departments are sanctioning the CODECO armed group, which controlled the key coltan mining site of Rubaya from 2022 to early 2024.

The State Department said it is freezing the assets of the armed group and companies in the U.S. or under U.S. control and banning all transactions with them. Rubaya is currently under control of the ...

A senior U.S. government official said the State and Treasury departments are sanctioning the PARECO armed group, which ...