The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to ...

Ibibaya bikina inyange ku mugoroba inyana zitashye – the valleys where egrets play in the evening as calves return home. This poignant line from Umwali's popular Rwandan song, Ibyiza by'u Rwanda (The ...

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working with local partners to meet the urgent humanitarian ...

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan ...

GOMA, Congo — Rebels with the M23 group have seized ... The rebels over the past week took Katale and Masisi towns, the latter located 80 kilometers (49 miles) west of the regional capital ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Several towns that fell to armed ... including Ngungu, a key town in the Masisi territory that is near the North Kivu provincial capital, Goma. Some Masisi villages, however ...

Congo's coltan miners dig for world's tech — and struggle regardless of who is in charge Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the ...

RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for ...

RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for ...

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