The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the ...

The latest crop of 14 new ambassadors in Washington includes diplomats from two former Soviet republics, two Caribbean nations, three African countries and three Arab ones.

Queensland is renowned for its business visionaries whose skills and daring have helped transform the state from backwater to ...

In the heart of Africa's most remote rainforest lies Dzanga Bai, a forest clearing where shy, elusive elephants gather in astonishing numbers. It is a place so wild and untouched, it's been called the ...

In some of the best-documented cases to date, the study shows the elephant population in the Okapi Faunal Reserve – one of the last strongholds of forest elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday.

For nearly 30 years a country in central Africa, called the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been affected by serious fighting and war.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace deal facilitated ... “The current draft agreement ignores war crimes and justice for victims by imposing a ...

A U.N. spokesperson and a local representative say that militiamen killed 11 people during an attack on a camp for the displaced in Congo’s northeastern Ituri province.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.