A tragic accident shook southeastern Congo on Saturday when a bridge collapsed at a semi-industrial copper mine, killing 30 people, Reuters reported. The incident took place at the Kalando mining site in Lualaba province, where hundreds of artisanal miners work every day.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has extended for six months a ban on the trading of minerals from dozens of artisanal mining sites in conflict-hit North and South Kivu provinces, the mines ministry said.

An Embraer ERJ-145LR carrying Congolese mining minister Louis Watum Kabamba and 20 other officials crashed while attempting to land at Kolwezi Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 17. The minister is in Kolwezi to inspect the site of a bridge collapse that killed 32 people on 15.

KINSHASA (Reuters) -Around 30 people were killed at a semi-industrial copper mine in southeastern Congo on Saturday after a bridge collapsed, the country's artisanal mining agency said.

Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.

Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. has held discussions with a US-backed investment company about developing a prized tantalum project in a Congolese war zone, if the Trump administration can broker a peace deal.

Muhindo, from La Lucha, shared the same view: “An agreement with the M23 under the current conditions would send an extremely dangerous message: take up arms, kill, align yourself with a neighbouring country, and you’ll end up invited to the table.”

The state cobalt agency in Democratic Republic of Congo has produced its first 1,000 metric tons of traceable artisanal cobalt, a key step in formalizing the sector in a country that supplies much of the world's battery metal.