Kinshasa (AFP) Mar 4, 2026
The death toll from a landslide at a mining site in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 200, the government said Wednesday.
A shaft collapsed at the country's largest coltan mine in the rebel-controlled east on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP, with an initial toll of six dead.
The Rubaya mining site lies about 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Goma, capital of North Kivu province,
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