Apple, Tesla and Intel are the main global industrial groups accused by the latest report of Global Witness to use for their products minerals and rare earths from the country, extracted irresponsibly, often by child labor, in very risky conditions

Reporters Without Borders turns the spotlight on the situation suffered by the local media: at least 14 radio stations are now inactive, six have been looted, five are now broadcasting under the control of the M23 rebels

Emerging cobalt problems in the country, the world's main source of cobalt, have been related to the use of child labour and Chinese control over the refining of the ore for use in batteries

After 22 years, the United Nations Organisation Mission for the Stabilisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco) has definitively ended its operations in the South Kivu region

Kitabus, from 'kita', book in Swahili, and 'bus', is a mobile library designed to promote reading to a wide audience, an initiative of the French Institute in Bukavu to promote basic education through books in line with the Congolese school curriculum