The DRC produces 70% of the world’s cobalt, yet nearly $1 billion vanishes from the legal supply chain each year.

The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles but the current downturn is unprecedented and no-one is sure how ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

Over six decades after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) gained independence, its eastern provinces continue to face violence, exploitation, and geopolitical manipulation. The rise of the M23 ...

Once again the market has been swamped by over-production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's dominant source of the battery metal. But while it was an artisanal mining surge that ...

Once again the market has been swamped by overproduction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s dominant source of the battery metal. But while it was an artisanal mining surge that ...