Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

Congo wins $1bn from World Bank to revive giant hydro plan The bank will initially commit $250m toward Inga III, a portion of the Grand Inga hydropower complex.

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue ...

Gode Bola receives funding support from the Congo River User Hydraulics and Morphology (CRuHM) project (2016-2021), which was entirely funded by The Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building (RS ...

Analysis - The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn't just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, political tensions, regional power struggles and battles over its natural ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again rising. What gives?

Amid Western inaction, Kigali is carving up its neighbor and reigniting a regional war.