This year’s European Union-African Union summit risks repeating past failures unless both sides rethink trade, migration and ...

DRC conflict coltan entering EU via Rwandan smuggling routes, report finds. Coltan linked to conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has likely entered the European Union market ...

A new report titled Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ('the Report') has been published by the ...

The report urges project stakeholders to shift away from a limited extract-and-export approach to critical minerals, which ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s export earnings from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to over $800 ...

Amid increased EU support for African mining projects, the upcoming African Mining Week – Africa’s premier gathering for mining stakeholders, taking place from October 1–3, 2025 in Cape Town – will ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) wants a peace agreement with Rwanda -backed M23 rebels before a planned summit ...

In February, the European Parliament said insufficient action has been taken to address the crisis in the DRC's east and Commissioner Kaja Kallas, the EU's top diplomat, vowed that the minerals ...

Development partners The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of ...