Currently, the three largest countries in Africa by land area are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ...

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Indonesia is currently overseeing the world’s biggest ever deforestation project in West Papua, while new research shows the ...

According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

It’s about whether the continent can shed historic dependencies to turn its mineral wealth into prosperity, without repeating ...

As the government weighs up whether to approve extraction at the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, we can reveal that the ...

In a 2024 commentary, “How California’s Energy Policies Fuel Real-World Atrocities Abroad,” I exposed a contradiction that had become impossible to ...

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Congolese soldiers and combatants from a pro-government militia have re-entered the eastern town of Uvira, residents said on ...

A landslide in eastern Congo has killed at least 13 people and left over 30 missing. Local authorities reported the disaster happened early Tuesday in the village of Burutsi, North Kivu province.

Pope Leo XIV called the attention of the faithful to “the great suffering of the people in eastern Democratic Republic of the ...