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    • 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

    • Friday, 10 July, 2020
      The Commodities NoteMining
      Industrial and artisanal miners in the Congo need a new cobalt compact

      Companies should help create a system that benefits everyone

    • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
      Belgium
      Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for historical Congo brutality

      Monarch acknowledges ‘acts of violence and cruelty’ during brutal rule of Leopold II

    • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
      Martin Fayulu
      Congo has little to cheer 18 months after its stolen election

      Political paralysis and Covid-19 make this the DRC’s bleakest independence day in 60 years

    • Saturday, 20 June, 2020
      African politics
      Congo president’s chief of staff sentenced to 20 years for corruption

      Vital Kamerhe is most senior politician ever convicted of graft in the resource-rich African state

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