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A United Nations report says Rwanda provided critical support to the M23 rebels who seized key cities earlier this year in Congo.
Congo and Rwanda ink a U.S.-facilitated peace deal as hopes rise for stability, but M23 rebels and mineral interests cast shadows over lasting peace.
New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.
As such, it is part of the Congo River basin, the second-largest river basin in the world and a global biodiversity hotspot with over 1,000 fish species. The river basin’s rainforest harbours more ...
In the 1880s, as Europe was scrambling for colonies in Africa, one major player, Belgium’s King Leopold II, claimed the Congo River basin as his own possession. and receive a Canada Proud ...
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 ...
It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European explorers in the early 20th century.
For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...
The Congo’s drainage basin is also enormous, covering 3.4 million square kilometres - almost the size of India - and it carries a staggering 41,000 cubic metres of water per second into the ...
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The importance of the Basin's forests was recognised at Glasgow's climate conference COP26 when 12 donors - including the UK, USA, Norway and France - signed the Congo Basin Pledge, committing $1. ...