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FILE – Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said on Sunday it feared “at least 200 people” had been killed in a “massive” landslide at a militia-controlled mine in the country’s east earlier this week.The announcement…
A mine collapse triggered by a landslide in Rubaya, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killed more than 200 people on Wednesday, local authorities said.The collapse occurred at a coltan mine that produces around 15 per cent of the world’s supply of the mineral, which is processed into tantalum used in mobile phones, computers, aerospace components…
The Congo River is ranked first on this list since it is the deepest river in the world. It creates a 4,700 km system that drains the enormous Congo Basin, Africa’s second largest rainforest region, and flows through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Angola. Significant amounts of freshwater and…
Representative image credits: IANS At least 20 people died, and several remain missing after a boat capsized on Lake Maï-Ndombe in northwestern Congo, according to local residents. The vessel, traveling from the town of Kiri to the capital, Kinshasa, included a newly ordained Catholic deacon, the local Diocese said in a statement on Friday.The boat…
Screen grab (Source: X @geotechwar, @RT_com) A chartered Embraer ERJ‑145LR carrying Democratic Republic of Congo mines minister Louis Watum Kabamba and around 20 others onboard skidded off the runway and caught fire at Kolwezi Airport on Monday.According to The Sun, the aircraft, returning from Kinshasa, came in to land around 11 am when it overshot runway 29…
Screen grab (Source: X/@WeatherMonitors) At least 32 people were killed in southeastern Congo after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding, a regional official said on Sunday.The bridge at the Kalando mine in Mulondo in Lualaba province gave way on Saturday, regional interior minister Roy Kaumba Mayonde told reporters. He…
