For most of us, visiting the zoo as a child brings up happy memories of adventures, melting ice cream, and childhood friends.

The pangolin is a truly extraordinary animal known for its protective keratin scales covering its entire body, making it the only mammal with such armor. Found across Africa ... to the dense ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's defence minister said there was a need to "relook at" a Southern African mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, where troops from several countries including South ...

Spanning six countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin is the largest tropical rainforest on the continent and serves as the world’s most significant carbon sink. The basin absorbs an ...

M23 rebels seize Nyabiondo amid ongoing clashes Pro-government militia switches sides to join M23 alliance US says it is open to minerals partnership with Congo March 9 (Reuters) - Fighting ...

Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...

Editing by David Holmes Africacategory Congo weighs attending talks with M23 in Angola as rebels make demands 4:34 PM UTC Africacategory EU pledges 4.7 billion euros to South Africa as Trump ...

A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia reveals a larger and more robust population than previously thought, ...

Corneille Nangaa, a former head of DR Congo's electoral commission, now leads the Congo River Alliance, which includes the M23 rebel group. Last year the three men were prosecuted in absentia by a ...

The ongoing violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which keeps escalating ... to help end the conflict in the central African nation. This story was first published ...