President Paul Kagame’s Press Secretary, Stéphanie Nyombayire, has called out Belgium’s hypocrisy in accusing Rwanda of mineral exploitation in DR Congo, despite the European country’s colonial ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

"I can confirm that the Belgian investigating judge has been ... Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones.

In December, it filed criminal charges against Apple in France and Belgium over the alleged conflict minerals. The public prosecutor's office in the kingdom has now commissioned an investigating ...

Belgium is moving ahead with its probe into allegations by the Democratic Republic of Congo that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) uses conflict minerals from the African country in its supply chain ...

They suggest the company used minerals supplied by armed groups ... Now, a month on, prosecutors in Belgium are reported to have appointed an investigative judge to probe the case.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals ...