Rwanda-backed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced late on Monday that they will pause their ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) quantified and rigorously studied ...

The problem for the outside world is that initiatives to deal with the problem have proven ineffective. The standard mechanism is to certify the minerals used throughout the international supply chain ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the Congolese trading hub of Goma last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded and raising ...

So the challenge, said The Times, is to ascertain how much of that tantalum comes from Rwanda, and how much from ...

The EU is giving Rwanda's government £750m to develop its infrastructure. With competition from China and other countries, ...

"By using a rigorous Bayesian approach, we found that this is not the case, at least when using tantalum." In a coupled metal/HE experiment, the HE material is attached to a metal and then detonated.