KoBold Metals, a mining company backed by US billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, signed an agreement with DR Congo’s government to launch a “large-scale mineral exploration program” in the country ...

Critical minerals are “critical” because they’re hard to mine or substitute. Additionally, their supply chains are strategically vulnerable and politically exposed. Whoever controls these minerals ...

Is the U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Rwanda and the DRC a genuine path to sustainable peace, or a continuation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s coercive diplomacy?

The Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Central Africa, has endured decades of conflict and instability despite being ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in ...

In March 2025, Somalia also became the 53rd member of Afreximbank, a move expected to unlock new financing channels for the country’s gold mining and trade-related developments. In 2024, the Ivory ...

Billionaire Dan Gertler has revealed in . confidential arbitration testimony. that he made payments to an associate of the ...

Gertler’s testimony cited in the arbitrator’s decision also describes how he made loans to the country and held assets worth ...

Barely 24 hours before President Donald Trump sat down for a lunch dialogue with African heads of state from Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, and Gabon, the five African leaders gathered ...

AFRICAN governments support value-addition to minerals, rather than exporting them raw. This has been the prevailing theme at the just-concluded eighth edition of Mining On Top Africa (MOTA), held in ...

Ivanhoe Mines said copper production from its Kamoa-Kakula mine in the Congo rose 11% Y/Y to 112K metric tons in Q2, despite seismic challenges that disrupted operations earlier this year.

The Rubaya mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a key site for coltan mining, a mineral crucial for electronics and defence technology.