SIDDHARTH KHARA: Well, 11 days after independence, the Belgians chopped off the mining province from the rest of the Congo with an army of the mining provinces in Katanga. ABDELFATAH: This is ...
Congo has some deposits of uranium in its southeastern Katanga region and some contamination occurs occasionally. Cobalt is mined as a by-product of copper production and the COMMUS mine produced ...
Half the world’s reserves of the element are found in Katanga, in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which puts this resource-rich region at the center of the global energy ...
A personal essay from actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Gugu Mbatha-Raw on the refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of ...
Families of the victims of last week's bombings at two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo, which killed at least ...
Two Kenya Airways staff members who were detained in Democratic Republic of Congo in late April have been released, a senior Kenyan foreign ministry official and the airline's chief executive said ...
An official in Congo says the death toll in the bombings of two camps for displaced people in the country's east last week ...
Every weekend between January 2022 and December 2023, members of the nongovernmental organization Ferme Don de Dieu (FDD) ...
NPR's Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei speak with professor Siddharth Kara on the fight for Congo's resources.