Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo--For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly ... It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds. The original boundaries of the reserve ...

DR Congo is home to copper, cobalt, zinc, uranium, diamonds, tantalum ... region and they are reportedly fighting for control of mining areas. More than 700 people have been killed in fighting ...

It’s been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery Story by Aryn Baker/Tshikapa Photographs by Lynsey Addario for ...

Tin prices surged to their highest level in more than two years on Friday following the suspension of the Bisie mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Canadian miner Alphamin ...

A Chinese state-controlled mining company mothballed a cobalt processing plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo only 15 months after opening it due to a historic slump in the price of the ...