Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has sought out a deal with the Trump administration, offering mineral access in return for American support in quelling an insurgency and boosting security.

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MARTIN IS A Congolese pastor with a sideline in coltan smuggling. “You can hide it in the petrol tank of a motorbike,” he says, “or in a secret compartment under a lorry.” He smuggles ...

Congo's coltan miners dig for world's tech — and struggle regardless of who is in charge Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the ...

Venezuela emerges as new source of ‘conflict’ minerals By Emilia Diaz-Struck and Joseph Poliszuk March 4, 2012 Colombia’s black-market coltan tied to drug traffickers, paramilitaries By Ignacio Gómez ...

A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday.

Goma, DR Congo — Reputed to be the coltan capital of the world, the mining town of Rubaya, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has fallen into the hands of rebels.

The mines produce coltan — short for columbite-tantalite — an ore from which the metals tantalum and niobium are extracted. Both are considered critical raw materials by the United States, the ...

The mines produce coltan — short for columbite-tantalite — an ore from which the metals tantalum and niobium are extracted. Both are considered critical raw materials by the United States, the ...