Thousands of people were working on the informal mining site in eastern Congo, in an area controlled by an armed militia.

Twelve people have been rescued from a collapsed gold mine in eastern Congo. The mine, located in South Kivu province, collapsed on Sunday after a landslide.

A landslide at the Lomera artisanal gold mine in eastern Congo left an unknown number of people trapped underground.

According to him, information on the exact number of casualties is difficult to verify, as the affected miners did not work ...