China’s Quest for Critical Minerals Comes With Abuse
Allegations of worker violence and environmental harm surround China’s mineral projects on the continent By ADF September 29, 2026 Millions of liters of toxic effluent flowed from a breach in the tailings dam at the Sino-Metals Leach copper mine in Zambia in February 2025. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As China has expanded its investment in mineral mining projects on the continent, allegations of environmental and human rights abuses have risen at an alarming rate. The Business and H
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DRC: M23 abuses miners, traffics gold and coltan to Rwanda
Amnesty International reports that Rwanda-backed M23 fighters abused artisanal miners in eastern DRC while facilitating the trafficking of gold and coltan into Rwanda.
Amnesty International
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DRC Ebola Emergency: Calls Grow For Urgent Humanitarian Aid
By United Nations News September 28, 2026 © UNOCHA/Priscilla Lecomte At the Ebola treatment centre ran by the NGO ALIMA, the medical staff follows strict infection prevention and control measures to prevent the spread of Ebola. this include wearing full personal protective equipment. 28 September 2026 | Health Aid teams trying to keep deadly Ebola disease from spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are increasingly concerned about ongoing fighting and violenc
UN News
Sep 28
‘We Fled With Nothing’: People Escaping Violence In The DRC
More than a year after a peace deal was signed, those fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are finding refuge in camps that are already home to hundreds of thousands living in dire conditions By Hugh Kinsella Cunningham September 24, 2026 Displaced people close to the town of Kalemie, Tanganyika province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham A cry of panic erupts across the camp as several shelters are engulfed in flam
The Guardian
Sep 24
Police Break Up Congo Constitutional Protests
By Jean-Yves Kamale September 16, 2026 People march during a protest organized by opposition parties against constitutional changes proposed by President Felix Tshisekedi, in Kinshasa, Congo, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi) KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police in Congo fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of people demonstrating against constitutional changes they said could allow President Félix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office. The oppositi
AP News
Sep 22
M23 Fighters Abused Miners And Trafficked Minerals to Rwanda
By Amnesty International September 21, 2026 REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra The plunder by M23 and Rwanda of DRC’s gold and coltan may amount to war crime of pillage M23’s multiple violations that also involve Rwandans may amount to war crimes “Rwanda has continued to illegally profit from DRC’s mineral wealth,” Agnès Callamard Minerals linked to abuses by M23 are prevalent in electronic devices owned by millions across the world Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) fighters have com
Amnesty International
Sep 21
DRC Takes Rwanda to International Court of Justice
By Emery Makumeno June 26, 2026 The M23 rebels have captured huge tracts of DR Congo's east The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its neighbour of breaching multiple international treaties. In a statement, DR Congo said Rwanda had dispatched forces and backed armed groups to carry out unlawful military operations on its territory following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. On Friday, Congolese Justice M
BBC News
Jul 29
M23 attacks violate Rwanda/DRC ceasefire agreement
March 2026 By the Great Lakes & Central Africa Task Force Secretary Marco Rubio hosts a Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda Peace Agreement signing ceremony between Democratic Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., June 27, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett) Despite efforts to negotiate a permanent peace agreement to end the
Genocide Watch
May 2
Belgium tries ex-Belgian diplomat for murder of Lumumba
Family of the then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcomed the decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘the beginning of a reckoning.’ 17th March 2026 Soldiers stand guard over Patrice Lumumba (right) and his associate Joseph Okito after their arrest in December 1960. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state,
ISIS Linked Terrorists Threaten Religious Freedom in DRC
ISIS Affiliates Threaten Religious Freedom in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Washington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ( USCIRF ) released the following report on the DRC: Nonstate Violators of Religious Freedom in the DRC – Amid ongoing political instability and chronic insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), nonstate armed groups have increasingly targeted religious communities, exploited gaps in governance, and li
USCIRF
Mar 30
DR Congo Blames Rwanda-Backed Rebels for 1,500 Deaths
By Cai Nebe January 5, 2026 Kinshasa says Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have killed 1,500 civilians despite a US-brokered ceasefire, as fresh clashes erupt near Uvira and tensions spill into Burundi. Displaced people try to cross into Burundi at the Kavimvira border to escape the M23 advance | Image: Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty Image Violent fighting erupted on Saturday between pro-Kinshasa forces and M23 rebels near Uvira, a key border city connecting the Democratic Republic of Cong
DW
Jan 5
“We Are Being Massacred”: Overlooked War Crimes in the DRC
“Tell everyone we are being massacred”: Overlooked war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo By Rawya Rageh 19 December 2025 Amnesty International In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), across a vast swathe of mountainous terrain, a conflict is raging that the world has forgotten. The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked armed group commonly called the ADF, are abducting and killing civilians with alarming frequency, and abusing women and gir
Amnesty International
Dec 19, 2025
