Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

Intense conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced millions and is driving humanitarian needs across the country while regional tensions remain high, especially with neighboring ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shared with the U.S. administration a list of state-backed projects for investment ...

When Qatar helped secure a peace deal to end ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) government last month, there was hope among many Congolese that a ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Melbourne, Australia published a study finding that copper and cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have sustained ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s richest deposits of cobalt, copper, and other critical minerals, enacted major revisions to its Mining Code in March 2018. These ...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt hosted Saudi King Ibn Saud onboard the USS Quincy as he returned from the 1945 Yalta Conference, few expected that the meeting would define the world economy for the ...

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss the escalation of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as M23 forces supported by Rwanda advance towards the ...

Key Takeaway: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), M23, and Rwanda will likely remain involved with Qatari-brokered negotiations and the broader US-backed regional peace framework without ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a rapidly escalating humanitarian emergency, with civilians paying the price of escalating conflict. As violence surges in Eastern DRC, displacement is ...