Congo's faded copper town perks up in mining rush
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Amid rusted hulks of abandoned  plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town  Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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for the front line in eastern Congo to stop renegade soldiers advancing further after more than a week of fighting. between the towns of Kanyabayonga and Lubero to keep rebels and loyal troops apart.
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This firm peddles its sought-after wares to the world's great miners.
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Botswana's capital offers an example of one city's efforts to manage explosive growth.
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From the air, much of Central African Republic looks like deserted bushland.
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RUSAMAMBO, Congo  - Fia Kambale looked out across  a deep green valley, pointing to one of the many hills that  make up the lush, undulating landscape of eastern Congo, where  untold riches and dangers lie.
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A town in the mineral rich Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to a mysterious group of militants. Going by the name of the Liberation Movement for
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KINSHASA, Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars, a calculated gamble in a city of hustles.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As two hulking white UN helicopters recently descended on this small remote town in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, hundreds of schoolchildren fled their classrooms to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
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Copper producer Antofagasta makes a $400m offer for Australian business Equatorial Mining, sparking a bid battle.
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Some mine disasters happen in a flash, like the Utah cave-in last month that apparently entombed six coal miners. Others unfold in slow motion.
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Congolese voted Sunday in their first democratic election in more than four decades, many hoping for an end to years of fighting and corrupt rule that have devastated the mineral-rich nation in the heart of Africa.
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VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- They heard the gunshots around 3 p.m., at least two pops that echoed across the green mountains of this vast park tangled up in vines, fallen trees and years of war.
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.
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KAMP-LINTFORT, Germany  - A tidy German town that has long flourished above its underground treasure of subsidized coal is struggling to cope with the shock after the government decided last week to shut down the mine.
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Humankind's closest relative is facing extinction in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.