Apple faces criminal complaints over Congo conflict minerals

The Great Lakes region continues to face the threat of terrorism, particularly from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a DR Congo-based Ugandan terror group affiliated to the Islamic State, foreign ...
Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what lawyers for the central African country have ...
Lea Tavares Mujinga, Simone Vandenbroecke Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeken and Marie ... [+] Jose Loshi pictured during a hearing in the case of five Belgian-Congolese women against ...
Congo President Joseph Mobutu last week nationalized the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the Belgian company that provided a living for 100,000 Congolese, accounted for about one-half of the ...
M23 rebels tightened their stranglehold over key trading routes to the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.