Though Assossa claims Cavacha is not a type of music but rather a dance style, music fans of the mid-1970s, the majority of ...

Lubumbashi - A cholera outbreak has claimed about 100 lives in the mineral-rich Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where health workers and affected residents agree it is hard to ...

Born in the Katanga Province of the Belgian Congo, Mudimbe challenged others to explore African histories and perspectives through an intrinsically African lens instead of relying on colonial-era ...

French ex-soldiers may be returning to Africa as part of a private security team put together by US billionaire, Eric Prince to protect mining operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Will the US-supported project be a hub for regional trade, or a new gateway to plunder DR Congo’s natural resources?

primarily located in the Katanga region (now Haut-Katanga Province), which is part of the Central African Copperbelt, the largest and richest mineral belt in the world. DR Congo is home to some of ...

In the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo's cobalt capital, southeastern Katanga Province, mining pollution is increasing and polluters often fail to respond properly, in accordance with ...

Between 2013 and 2018, P. tinctorius was massively overharvested in Haut-Katanga, another province in the DRC. This led the DRC authorities to ban its harvest in 2018 and, thanks to campaigning by ...

At dawn, blue-helmeted U.N. troops swarmed into action at Elisabethville, capital of the Congo’s breakaway Katanga province. Without any warning to the Katangans, platoons of Indians seized the ...

The United Nations called it historic: a deal that granted legal documents to local communities and enabled them to benefit from their forest resources in Haut-Katanga province in the Democratic ...

He was born in the Katanga province, the mineral-rich economic motor of the DRC, where he became a governor. But Katumbi has also often been criticised for not being "fully" Congolese, because his ...