Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo
There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently raging. It may even be directly connected to the M23 rebel group that made global headlines this week.
The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase.
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DR Congo - Summit Must Stop Atrocities of War and Hold Criminals to Account [press release]Failure to seize this moment will only embolden the perpetrators and increase the likelihood of further atrocities' - Agnès CallamardA joint summit on 7 and 8 February will be held for the heads of ...
Congolese M23 rebels are seen as they withdraw from the 3 antennes location in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu Province of the ...
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal ...
The order Trump signed Thursday accuses the ICC of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally ...
Failure to seize this moment will only embolden the perpetrators and increase the likelihood of further atrocities’ - Agnès ...
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