This trial highlights the Congolese government's efforts to tackle illegal mining. Found guilty of illegal mining, three Chinese nationals were recently sentenced to seven years in prison in the ...

More than 230,000 people have fled surging violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already displaced 237,000 people this year. Escalating clashes ...

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in prison for engaging in ...

A court in the eastern Congolese city of Bukavu has handed seven-year prison terms to three Chinese nationals as part of an ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Suspects were found in possession of $400,000 in cash and substantial amount of gold, raising concerns about scale of their ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to seven years in prison for the illegal exploitation of minerals in the eastern ...

Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

At least 10 people were killed in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group, a local official said ...

Three Chinese nationals have been sentenced to seven years in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east after being arrested in possession of gold bars and large sums of cash. The court ...