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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Off-grid solar offers light — and some hope

      Getting kits to customers who need it at a price they can afford in Democratic Republic of Congo is a miracle of technology and supply chains

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      World Health Organization
      WHO reinstates managers accused of mishandling DRC sex scandal

      UN agency welcomed back officials criticised by report into sexual exploitation during Ebola outbreak

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
      InterviewWorld Health Organization
      WHO on ‘long journey’ to root out sexual misconduct, says official

      Gaya Gamhewage aims to make health body ‘safe for all people’ and criticises male-dominated culture in UN agencies

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
      Premium chocolate venture brings benefits to DRC’s cacao farmers

      An ambitious scheme aims to raise incomes and protect nature in a region blighted by violence

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Shares in China metals miner CMOC surge as Congo impasse clears 

      Deal between Chinese group and Gécamines threatens to put downward pressure on cobalt prices

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      How China is winning the race for Africa’s lithium

      The country already dominates processing of the metal for use in electric vehicle batteries and is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling to keep up

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      InterviewWorld23 min
      DRC finance minister talks mining, smuggling and building batteries

      Nicolas Kazadi tells the FT Commodities Global Summit that DRC must export more products and fewer raw materials

    • 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

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