become the world’s leading producer of industrial diamonds, cobalt, uranium, and one of the major exporters of copper and tin. During World War II the Congo even paid the bills for the Belgian ...

For more than a century, Antwerp has been a crucial hub for a $100 billion global industry—one that virtually defines love ...

A toxic leak from a massive diamond mine in Angola killed at least 12 people and left 4,500 sick, a minister in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo says. The leak turned a tributary of the ...

Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

Independence for Congo ... Belgian Congo's independence followed by an Independence cha-cha-cha Within days things fell apart. The army mutinied against Belgian officers. The main mining area ...