BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — A bridge at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at ...

KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is with ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A landslide at a gold mine in a remote corner of northeast Congo has left at least 60 people dead, a local administrator said Thursday. Faustin Drakana Kananga told The ...

The governor of the South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Friday ordered the suspension of all mining activities in order to “restore order” in the mineral-rich region plagued by violence from armed ...

FILE PHOTO: Refugees flee eastern Congo into Burundi as fighting rages in South Kivu (Reuters) -Gold miner Twangiza Mining SA has accused Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of forcing its employees to work ...

FILE PHOTO: An employee stands in an open pit at Twangiza mine in eastern Congo (Corrects to remove reference to company ownership in second and last paragraph) (Reuters) -Twangiza Mining, a gold ...

A proposed railway connecting Utah’s oilfields to Gulf Coast refineries could set a new legal precedent for how companies engage with the U.S. government’s environmental impacts requirements. “A ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended for six months a ban on the trading of minerals from dozens of artisanal mining ...

KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) — Slumped on the ground over a mound of dirt, Divine Wisoba pulled weeds from her daughter’s grave. The 1-month-old died from mpox in eastern Congo in August, but Wisoba, 21, was ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) – Gold is now the primary source of income for armed groups in eastern Congo, and is ending up in jewelry stores across the world, according to a report published Thursday by the ...