The Congo River runs through the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already ...

In the U.S., bad inflation numbers came in just as President Donald Trump planned to upend global trade by signing a broad ...

President Donald Trump upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that he and Russian President ...

Delcat Idengo, well-known for his critical songs, died after releasing a track condemning the city's rebel occupation.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

In just a fortnight, thousands of people are said to have been killed and the fighting has sparked an ominous war of words between DR Congo and its neighbour, Rwanda. So how did DR Congo - the largest ...

As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African ...