Congo

In These Times
View In: CongoCobalt Red examines the tech-fueled "modern-day slavery" in the Congo

The Real News Network
View In: CongoThe mineral-rich eastern provinces of the DRC have been repeatedly invaded and attacked by proxy forces known to be backed by Rwanda and Uganda, both key allies of US interests in the region.

Zero Hedge News
View In: CongoRogan Guest Goes Viral After Exposing “Subhuman” And “Appalling“ Cobalt Mining Conditions In Congo There is one part to the “green“ EV revolution that we have written about - but that no one else is talking about: the incessant need for cobalt and the “appalling“ way that the battery metal is mined an...

Counter Punch
View In: CongoThe M23 rebels—backed by Rwanda—have expanded their attacks in the DRC. In retaliation, the DRC expelled Rwandan Ambassador Vincent Karega. The M23 with the assistance of Rwanda troops captured Kiwanja and Rutshuru, two towns in the DRC’s North Kivu province. Rwanda argues that it was the DRC that violate...

Alternet.org
View In: CongoIn early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vicent Biruta met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades. The foreign ministers agreed that the “peac...

The Guardian
View In: CongoWhile the west races to investigate Russia’s war crimes, it continues to ignore atrocities perpetrated on DRC for 20 yearsThe head of the World Health Authority, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has suggested that racism is partly to blame for the lack of international interest in the conflict in Ethiopia’...