The U.N. children's fund says armed men in eastern Congo raped hundreds of children and recruited child soldiers at unprecedented levels as the conflict in the mineral- rich region intensified in rece ...

A number of employees for the main farm in the DRC have children who attend a ... they are the best technicians in the mining world now.” Ernest and Patrick are now launching the new farm in the ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

Illicit mining and smuggling fuel conflicts in a region ... about the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with fears that the violence could spread across the region.