Rwanda has sent at least 7,000 soldiers over the border, according to analysts and diplomats, in support of the M23 rebels, who seized eastern Congo's two largest cities and lucrative mining areas ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended its ban on exports of cobalt by three months as the world's dominant producer of the battery metal tries to convert its supply power into pricing power.

Congo is likely to continue with the ban because the government wants more time to work out how to distribute export quotas among mining companies that produce the battery vehicle metal, said the ...

The world’s top cobalt supplier imposed a four-month suspension on exports in February after prices had hit a nine-year low at just $10 a pound. The ban was due to expire on Sunday.

IXM, owned by China's CMOC Group, has declared force majeure on deliveries of cobalt produced in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the country extended its ban of exports of the battery material, ...

The trading unit of CMOC Group — the world’s biggest producer of cobalt — has declared force majeure on deliveries of the ...

DR Congo, the world's top cobalt supplier, imposed a four-month suspension on exports in February after prices had hit a nine-year low at just $10 a pound. The ban was due to expire on Sunday.

Congo is likely to continue with the ban because the government wants more time to work out how to distribute export quotas among mining companies that produce the battery vehicle metal, said the ...

Glencore halts some cobalt deliveries over Congo export ban - Reuters Jun. 11, 2025 12:57 PM ET Glencore plc (GLCNF) Stock, GLNCY Stock By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor 1 Comment ...

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.