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Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per ...
M23 insurgents control one of the planet's largest sources of coltan, a mineral prized by high-tech industries. Dislodging ...
Though it will no longer display the branding of the government tourist board "Vist Rwanda" Bayern will still maintain a relationship with the country, which is widely accepted to be funding M23, a ...
The US has sanctioned Congo’s PARECO armed group, mining firms, and Hong Kong exporters over illicit coltan trade, as renewed ...
Education for refugee children is often not guaranteed in their host countries. In Uganda, a special school for Congolese ...
Twenty-one years later, Esperance Nyiramukunzi still clings to hope for life, but less for justice. She was only 11 years old when her mother was shot dead during the infamous Gatumba massacre in ...
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Congolese citizens deserve better from the UN

A new inquiry has cast troubling doubt on the United Nations’ accusations against the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising urgent questions about the integrity of the UN’s ...
The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions against an armed group aligned with Congo's military as well as a Congolese ...
According to the latest UN data, as of the end of July, two million people have been forced from their homes in the provinces of North and South Kivu in eastern Congo since the beginning of the year ...