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The US has sanctioned Congo’s PARECO armed group, mining firms, and Hong Kong exporters over illicit coltan trade, as renewed ...
The recent agreement is a good first step, but peace and security in this Central African conflict will require persistent diplomacy.
The AFC/M23 rebel movement, on Tuesday, August 12, announced the creation of a commission tasked with launching and overseeing the process of restoring judicial organs in territories under their ...
U.S. entrepreneurs have set their sights on Rubaya’s coltan as President Trump seeks a peace deal to end the conflict and ...
The Rwanda-backed group is trying to build an administration that wins public support, but civilians report ongoing abuses.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned an armed group in Rwanda involved in illegal mining ...
According to the latest UN data, as of the end of July, two million people have been forced from their homes in the provinces of North and South Kivu in eastern Congo since the beginning of the year ...
M23 insurgents control one of the planet's largest sources of coltan, a mineral prized by high-tech industries. Dislodging ...
The Trump administration sanctioned four entities over their role in the critical minerals trade in eastern DR Congo as it ...
Rwanda-backed rebels have killed at least 80 people in eastern Congo, according to Congolese authorities. The army condemned the attacks in South Kivu, including 80 people on August 4 in ...
Violent clashes have erupted between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite a peace treaty, security and local sources told Agence ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit trading in minerals in ...