Coltan

As Chinese presence expands into Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States remains comparatively unimaginative, if not inactive. Three years ago, Foreign Policy authors Andrés Malamud...

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The Biden administration doesn't want to talk about it, but China's expanding military activities and economic influence in Africa loom large over a major three-day summit with African leaders the White House is hosting next week.

CARACAS, May 12 (IPS) - The voracious search for gold in southern Venezuela, practiced by thousands of illegal miners under the protection of various armed groups, represents the greatest threat today to the lives of indigenous peoples, their habitat and their cultures, according to their organizations and human rights defenders.

The DRC adds 90 million people and nearly $50 billion to the East Africa Community bloc.

Neptune Frost is sci-fi musical with immense ideas that never fully coalesce.

Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23's expansion in a mineral-rich region that's critical for global technology.

Moscow agrees to a Red Sea naval base near Port Sudan while working to establish airbases in Libya.

Western powers are unwilling to hold Kigali accountable.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

How traceability schemes have wound up hurting Congo's people.

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Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams' sci-fi Afrofuturism musical Neptune Frost is an ambitious, bold, and bizarre debut. Produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the movie follows an intersex runaway and coltan miner who falls in love and sparks a revolution. It draws from Saul Williams' 2016 concept album MartyrLoserKing. Rolling out in theaters starting June 3.

Another Sundance Film Festival has come and gone, and with it we've gotten a close look at some of the films and interactive experiences that'll be the talk of 2022..

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The official start of free trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in January 2021 moved a major continental aspiration closer to reality.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province in an apparent violation of a ceasefire.

There is a good chance that inside your device is some metal dug up in a mine controlled by rebels.

OAKLAND, California, USA, Jan 30 (IPS) - The fresh offensive by the M23 rebels and Rwanda forces in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) coincides with the first anniversary of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the European Union (EU) and Rwanda to cooperate on the supply of "critical minerals."

The recent course of imperialism, and debates within anarchist movements over contemporary atrocities, reveal a certain lack of familiarity with anarchist positions on colonialism and imperialism. The positions of historic anarchists have been overlooked, forgotten, or largely lost to time. Towards the end of revisiting and highlighting historic anarchist positions I want to reflect on some of that overlooked work.…

Sudan is a pivotal link in the increasingly fragile and violent geopolitics of both the Sahel and the Red Sea/Horn of Africa regions. The bloody fighting across the country that began on April 15 is the result of a clash between the two most powerful military forces in the country - General