Rwandan support, combined with weaknesses in DRC’s army, enabled the M23 to seize vast amounts of territory in North Kivu ...

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth ...

The M23 has continued to gain ground in eastern DR Congo and last month seized the region's second-biggest city, Bukavu.

In a bid to eliminate violent rebels, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi has proposed a minerals deal to U.S. President Donald Trump in exchange for a security agreement.

It comes just after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame held surprise talks in Doha on Tuesday, expressing their support for a ceasefire.

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and has largely been spared from the war. But its supply chain, like that of many minerals in the DRC, is tainted by "complex levels of organised crime", Oluwole Ojewale, a researcher at Enact ...

The wounded troops were part of a mission sent by the 16-nation Southern African Development Community bloc in 2023 to help Kinshasa quell unrest in the mineral ... January, DR Congo's Prime ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has seized large swathes of the mineral-rich eastern DRC A ... backed armed group M23 offensives in eastern DR Congo that has left thousands dead and displaced.