Trump facing 1st test in Africa amid bloody battles ‘over electric vehicle battery minerals’

Humanitarian aid threatened by fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo

Humanitarian aid at risk as fighting continues in Congo's eastern capital. (Video: AP.)

March 23 Movement (M23) rebels gather for large-scale protests as they set on fire the Rwandan, French, Belgian and Kenyan embassy buildings and loot some shopping centers during anti-Rwandan demonstrations allegedly supported by M23 and rebels in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 28, 2025. (Chris Milosi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump speaks about the midair crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump was later asked about the violence in the DRC and called it a "very serious problem." (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

M23 rebels patrol in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Boys said to be mining for cobalt in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (ILO/UNICEF)

Members of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) ride on a pickup truck as they secure the evacuation of non-essential UN staff, following the fight between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 25, 2025. (Reuters/Arlette Bashizi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)