The U.S. also sanctioned the Coalition des Patriotes Resistants Congolais-Forces de Frappe (PARECO-FF) - an armed group ...

Under the watchful eye of M23 rebels in the hills around the Congolese town of Rubaya, a line of men in rubber boots ferry ...

The Trump Administration has just sanctioned four groups connected to the critical minerals trade in eastern DR Congo — as ...

The sanctions target PARECO-FF, a militia accused of forced labor and civilian killings, as well as Congolese mining firm CDMC and two Hong Kong-based exporters, East Rise Corporation and Star Dragon ...

The US has sanctioned Congo’s PARECO armed group, mining firms, and Hong Kong exporters over illicit coltan trade, as renewed ...

A mystery illness has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A "poisoning of a water source" may be a cause, the WHO says.

U.S. entrepreneurs have set their sights on Rubaya’s coltan as President Trump seeks a peace deal to end the conflict and ...

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned an armed group in Rwanda involved in illegal mining ...

M23 insurgents control one of the planet's largest sources of coltan, a mineral prized by high-tech industries. Dislodging ...

FF, CDMC, East Rise and Star Dragon over conflict coltan in eastern Congo on 12 August 2025. • CDMC is accused of buying minerals extracted under armed control and selling them to Hong Kong traders ...

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, May 9, 2025 ...

The United States has sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as ...