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 ...

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.

"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.

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

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 ...

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 ...