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2 days ago
More than 90,000 Congolese fled across the border after M23 stormed in and took control of Uvira nearly 3 months ago.
11 days ago
Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation? ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoal
“You can’t be scared of the storms,” sa…
19 days ago
The Guardian view on the scramble for critical minerals: while powers vie for access, labourers die | Editorial ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn’t helping
When Donald Trump boasted recently that he had stopp…
23 days ago
‘We are exploited’: Congolese fear losing out as US makes minerals deals ⊖
As officials meet in Washington to discuss critical minerals, many in DRC fear their country will gain little.
25 days ago
‘You take what you can and run’: families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC ⊖⊖
Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps
It must have been an eerie sight when 35-year-old Diudonné Muka looked …
27 days ago
More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones
More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in east…
29 days ago
Banks shut, futures uncertain one year after M23 rebels seized DRC’s Goma ⊖⊖
A year since the M23's lightning offensive led to the fall of North Kivu's capital, residents struggle to make a living.
41 days ago
Rare twins born in DRC raise cautious hope for endangered mountain gorillas ⊕
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Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical
It was noon by the time Jacques Katutu first saw the newborn mountain gorillas.…
51 days ago
Thousands of refugees fleeing DR Congo arrive at Burundi camps ⊖
Tens of thousands of people have crossed into Burundi to escape violence in the eastern DRC.
‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved? ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one
The older inhabitants of Kinshasa can remember wh…