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An aerial view of the Minastyc project in Colombia.

Why Colombia’s First Rare Earths Mining Project Has Gotten So Toxic

by Daniela Quintero Díaz March 18, 2024September 2, 2025

For several weeks, residents of Sake, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have been living under the intensive exchange of heavy weapons fire as fighting flared up between government troops and March 23 Movement (M23) rebels,.

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Why Rwanda May Force The World To Remember DRC’s “Forgotten War”

by Pierre Haski February 21, 2024May 21, 2025