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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 sound of generators, ...
PHOTO ESSAY: Congo 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, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds of men labor by hand ...
GRIT remaps the world's rivers, branching into the unknown to aid global flood modeling
A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...
Congo's battle against M23 strains public finances, IMF says
An escalation of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has strained the Central African nation's public finances, ...
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Inside the Congo Crisis: How Decades of Conflict and Exploitation Set the Nation Ablaze
Eastern Congo’s collapse into chaos is not just another regional conflict—it’s a long-simmering crisis rooted in colonial borders, post-independence misrule, and modern-day battles for control over ...