FILE - Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Congo, May 9, 2025...

A commuter rides on the back of a motorbike as pedestrians walk along a road in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Tuesday...

President Donald Trump at the signing ceremony of a peace deal with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi...

President Donald Trump at the signing ceremony of a peace deal with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi...

Zaida Catalan (L), a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an American were killed in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017...

The UN’s mission in DR Congo says at least 16,000 people have fled the violence in Congo...

Residents carry goods on their backs while they cross a lava covered field in Buhene, north of Goma, on May 25, 2021...

Congolese volunteers carry the body of a child who drowned and died after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu, in Mukwija, Kalehe territory, South Kivu Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on January 6, 2021...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi The Democratic Republic of the Congo says China has offered some debt relief in a bid to ease pressure on the central African country ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis...

The Tilwezembe copper-cobalt mine in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

An officer from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FADRC) gives instructions during a patrol in the village of Manzalaho, near Beni, in the DR Congo, following an attack allegedly perpetrated by members of the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), on February 18, 2020...

Moscow is deploying its military specialists to Congo to provide service for Russian-made military hardware and equipment in the sub-Saharan African country...