Hundreds of people have been brutally killed and more than 150,000 have fled their homes in remote parts of Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local residents of the area ...

The rebirth of the mine – which first started operating a century ago – represents the ultimate Brownfields project.

But this time Tshombe had little choice. Blue-helmeted U.N. troops controlled nearly all the major rail and population centers of Katanga province, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was not ...

Many others on the front lines of the mining economy feel similarly. Souverain Kabika lives in Haut-Katanga province, another Congolese region connected through the railway line to Lobito.