In the face of accusations of illegal exploitation in the DRC, Rwanda is organising a visit to its mines. At the invitation ...

In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest in Brazil, leaders believe in their youths’ skills to maintain their ancestors’ ...

Necessary for soldering electronics, semiconductors, and renewable technology. This shows cassiterite, tin oxide mineral (SnO2) that is the primary source of tin metal.

Prime Minister Dr. Édouard Ngirente visited the Rukaragata mining site in Ngororero District, where he assessed ongoing ...

Local church sources in Bukavu, a city in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which reportedly fell in the hands of March 23 Movement (M23) rebel forces mid-February have painted a ...

This newly launched bulletin focused on Global Indigenous Peoples News , part of the Glocal Exchange project of Weave News, seeks to highlight some of the current issues from Indigenous communities in ...

The region is known for housing part of Central Africa’s tin belt that reaches into Rwanda and Congo-K and to the north of Tanzania. Small-scale miners have long been extracting cassiterite, the ore ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a Central African country with vast mineral wealth, including reserves of cassiterite (tin), columbite-tantalite (a source of tantalum), wolframite ...