Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... and small-scale mining and child labour remain a salient feature of cobalt ...

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where hundreds of civilians have been killed and tens of ...

Apple is facing criminal complaints by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accuses ... sourced from illegal sources who employ child labor and use the proceeds to buy weapons for armed ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what lawyers ... stoke war in eastern DRC and promote ...

We’re led by 59-year-old Arthur Boyle, a father of 13, who first came here on Labor Day weekend in 2000 ... of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

The U.N. children's fund says armed men in eastern Congo raped hundreds of children and recruited child soldiers at unprecedented levels as the conflict in the mineral- rich region intensified in rece ...

U.N. children’s agency warns the toll may be significantly higher, as M23 rebels continue their advance.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts. But the latest advances made by M23, a rebel coalition, capturing the mineral-rich city of Goma, is a humiliating setback ...