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 ...

Botswana’s president Duma Boko said his government had reached a diamond extraction and sales agreement with De Beers that ...

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 ...

“Barrick is also making significant progress on the construction of a 16MW solar plant at Kibali to help reduce its carbon dioxide emissions from 45kt to 24kt per year. Not only is it the biggest gold ...

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.