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New front in US-China rivalry opens, this time in Congo’s copper and cobalt mining heartland
DRC has offered US access to its vast mineral wealth as part of a broader plan to end violence in the country’s east, where ...
Gulf Times21h
UN lauds Qatar’s role in DRC-M23 joint declaration
The Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric stated that the United Nations Organisation ...
The Guardian Nigeria11h
Rwanda arrests three top mining, oil officials in graft probe
Rwanda has arrested three top officials from the country's Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board along with four businessmen ...
Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault cases
In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape as M23 rebels advanced through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to a ...
Opinion
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Can the DR Congo government be trusted to commit to the Declaration of Principles?
Dare we hope that, at long last, there is a possibility of real, sustainable, lasting peace in DR Congo (and thus the wider Great Lakes Region)? The foreign ministers of DR Congo and Rwanda hosted by ...