Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Battle for control of central African nation fuelled by increasing demand for minerals crucial in manufacture of smartphones ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

The new agreement had not resulted in “any major changes, just a little tweaking of things here and there,” Botswana’s ...

More than 300 illegal gold miners were trapped in a gold mine in South Africa for months. Some of them became cannibals underground, as two men have ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

The Critical Minerals Africa Group (CMAG) ( the advocacy group seeking to foster deeper relations between Africa and global markets and put Africa at the heart of international discussions surrounding ...

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 list the top universities in Africa with countries like South ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...