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 ...
Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...
WARNING: This story contains an image that may be disturbing to some readers. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu ...
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.