Debra Matabvu — SADC Chairperson, President Mnangagwa and his East African Community (EAC) counterpart, Kenyan President William Ruto, are expected to hold a high-level meeting this week to formally ...

The UN Security Council members should reassess MONUSCO's mandate in DR Congo if the mission can no longer fulfill its ...

A new study from the Institute of Development Studies warns that the scale of global mining conflicts threatens clean energy ...

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by ...

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

In January, M23 seized control of Goma, the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province ... The latest round of conflict escalated in December 2024 after peace talks in Angola between the ...

the metal of the future is in danger of regaining its problematic conflict mineral tag of the past. Evidently, the further the M23 rebels move into the Kivu region, the risks for both market and ...

Before these recent clashes in Goma, ongoing conflict had already displaced 2.4 million people in North Kivu. Of these, some 800,000 people were living in the precarious conditions of displacement ...

The M23 rebels took control of the North Kivu mining town a day after Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame called for an ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire. Here is a map and breakdown of the M23’s ...