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  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    InterviewWorld23 min
    How Congo aims to double copper production | FT Interview

    DRC finance minister Nicolas Kazadi discloses this 2030 objective of 5mn tonnes along with plans for cobalt, coltan, gold and lithium

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    DRC says Rwandan mineral smuggling costs it almost $1bn a year

    Kinshasa has long accused Kigali of plundering its resources by supporting insurgent M23 group

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Pope uses Africa tour to call for peace and end to ‘economic colonialism’

    ‘Lay down your arms’, pontiff tells warring sides in DR Congo

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    FT Magazine
    The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth

    Decades after his murder, the tooth of the former Congolese leader turned up in Belgium. This is the story of its return

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    Special ReportThe World 2023
    Companies race to work around choke points in world trade

    Geopolitical risks are driving efforts to diversify but there are no quick solutions

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Glencore
    Glencore to pay DR Congo $180mn to cover corruption claims

    Payment by Swiss-based commodity trader and miner covers alleged misconduct from 2007-18

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    The Big Read
    How the DRC became the battleground of a proxy war over precious resources

    Local and foreign-backed forces are waging a deadly offensive in the mineral-rich heart of Africa

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    World26 min
    DRC president talks war, peace, minerals and investment

    Félix Tshisekedi says potential investors should not 'wait for us to be perfect'

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    DR Congo leader rules out deploying Russian mercenaries to quell rebels

    Félix Tshisekedi says country will rely on its own army to fight militia as he pledges to push ahead with economic plans

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Special ReportAfrican Development
    DR Congo seeks to ‘reclaim history’ with economic reforms

    Finance minister pushes for ‘big, ambitious agenda’ backed by international lenders

  • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
    DR Congo opens oil and gas auction round to carbon credit and crypto groups

    Rather than drill in rainforests and peatlands, such groups would raise revenue by selling carbon credits

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    DR Congo criticises Rwanda after report claims its troops are backing rebels

    Kigali has previously denied backing M23 fighters in the east of the neighbouring country

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Russian politics
    Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

    Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    Congo expands oil auction round after west’s crude production push

    Country plans to increase number of exploration blocks out to tender from 16 to 27

  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Interview
    Congo’s president Félix Tshisekedi warns of risk of war with Rwanda

    DRC leader tells the FT he will not stand by as armed militia linked to Kigali steps up attacks in resource-rich east

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Belgium
    Belgian king regrets ‘wounds of past’ in first Congo visit

    Kinshasa speech falls short of formal apology for decades of brutal colonial rule

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    The Commodities NoteCobalt
    Ethics of cobalt mining must be taken seriously by traders

    Buyers need to create common standards and metrics to govern extraction process

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
    World Health Organization
    WHO staff face allegations of sexual abuse during Ebola outbreak

    Inquiry says 21 workers for UN health body in Democratic Republic of Congo were among those involved

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Biden administration reimposes sanctions on Israeli mining magnate

    US state department rescinds controversial reprieve for Dan Gertler at end of Donald Trump’s term

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Fresh Ebola outbreak feared in Democratic Republic of Congo

    New case emerges as country battles second wave of coronavirus that is stronger than first

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Mining
    Dan Gertler wins reprieve from US sanctions over alleged Congo corruption

    Trump administration eased restrictions on Israeli billionaire days before president left office

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Trafigura
    Trafigura signs cobalt deal with DRC

    Commodity trader to help improve conditions at informal mining sites in return for supplies

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Dan Gertler seeks to head off criticism of latest Congo mining deal

    Sanctions-hit Israeli tycoon offers ‘partnership’ with DRC citizens as he reveals 2017 royalty stream purchase

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    FT Magazine
    Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo

    Antiracism protests have renewed attention on a violent legacy - and activists want companies to face up to it too

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    Mining
    Glencore backs cobalt mining pact in DR Congo

    Accord aims to eradicate child labour and improve working conditions

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