In the DRC, mining is strictly prohibited ... Satellite imagery from Planet Labs captured October 2024 shows gold mining-related deforestation along the Ituri River that runs through the southern ...

Uganda's role in eastern DR Congo has largely gone under the radar during recent violence but its complex approach aims to ...

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause ...

In Ituri, violence is usually attributed to fighting over land and resources and between ethnic groups. The eastern DRC is rich in minerals. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...

While M23 marches on in North and South Kivu, Ugandan troops have intensified deployments across their border with the DRC in Ituri province ... mineral resources like gold; and the emergence ...

Mahagi is in Ituri province, which borders Uganda ... The M23 has seized swathes of the DRC's troubled, mineral-rich east in recent months, including the key provincial capitals of Goma and ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Increased violence in the three easternmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is raising ... infrastructure in Ituri, North Kivu and ...