For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... up and saw a perplexed adult chimp peering down. When wild chimps encounter humans, they typically flee in ...

This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... to no country in the world except Congo. If it doesn’t survive in the wild there, it will survive in the wild ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... pastoral region in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Though his name is Sylvestre Bashali Mokoto ...

A version of this story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Trackers ... and herds of wild elephants.

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the government of the DRC let them fall into ...

Since the ethnic conflict in neighboring Rwanda spilled into Congo in 1994 ... This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the ranger studied the ragtag ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a tense assignment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is rife with crime and poverty, but its ...

This story appears in the October 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the tragedy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An orphan, she died of diarrhea, a treatable condition.