If ever a country was in need of a miracle this holiday season, it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. You may have heard news of the deadly attack on UN Peacekeepers there earlier this month.

As holiday shopping ramps up, an El Paso human rights advocate urges consumers to research and avoid products tied to conflict minerals that fuel violence, exploitation, and humanitarian crises in the ...

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Conflict minerals from eastern Congo's war zone will be in our holiday gift stockings this year in our smartphones, flatscreen tv's, and video game ...

Each summer growing up, we traveled from Northern Ontario, Canada, where we lived, to our family cottage on Cape Cod, Mass., where my grandparents schooled us every chance they got on the rich history ...