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In the DRC cobalt mining is increasingly important as the country produces more than 70% of the world's cobalt.

Kinshasa has had a turbulent past but has started to prosper as the DRC's economy expands at more than 6% a year.

In eastern Congo and the nearby CAR (Central African Republic) there has been an increase in violence during the last few months In Congo this is on purpose, as forces from Congo and Uganda make a joint effort to eliminate the Ugandan ADF Islamic terror

In eastern Congo and the nearby CAR (Central African Republic) there has been an increase in violence during the last few months In Congo this is on purpose, as forces from Congo and Uganda make a joint effort to eliminate the Ugandan ADF Islamic terror

The contract signed in December last year by Kinshasa and DP World goes beyond building a deepwater port at Banana. Its provisions also cover the river port of Matadi, at the risk of irking the

For 400 hot and dusty kilometers, a two-lane highway cuts through central Africa, its path lined with the carcasses of trucks, buses and minivans, but this modest road holds outsize value for global markets, connecting some of the continent’s richest mines to the rest of the world and, most notably, China. Along the route, thousands of flatbed trucks haul sheets of copper and sacks of cobalt hydroxide, essential for electric vehicles and other 21st-century technologies. Their drivers must pay ...

KINSHASA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Twenty-six people died on Wednesday after lightning struck a high-tension power cable on the outskirts of the Congolese capital Kinshasa, causing it to snap and fall on houses and a market, the authorities said. The victims included 24 women and two men, and another two people were seriously injured, Democratic…

KINSHASA—Twenty-six people died on Wednesday after lightning struck a high-tension power cable on the outskirts of the Congolese ...

The Kabilas’ involvement in the toll road came to light through the biggest leak ever of financial documents from Africa.

High-voltage power cable snaps in Kinshasa market, killing 26