Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an ...

A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in ...

Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution accused of buying smuggled minerals from Congolese rebels, fuelling insurgency.

By Reade Levinson, David Lewis and Sonia Rolley , REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from ...

FILE PHOTO: A miner shows coltan in Birambo, Masisi territory, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 1, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo ...

M23 was taking in $800,000 monthly from taxes collected from coltan mining in eastern Congo, according to the 2024 report. Official statistics on Rwanda’s coltan production are unreliable ...

On Friday, Rwanda and Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement that aims to arrange for the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from Congo’s territory. The accord does not include M23.

AFC, or Congo River Alliance, is an umbrella groups which includes M23. The M23-controlled Rubaya mines produce coltan — short for columbite-tantalite — an ore from which the metals tantalum and ...

, REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa, with a rapidly growing population of more than 100 million. The DRC is endowed with exceptional natural ...