For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Ivanhoe is exploring a 16,000km² licence package, 7.5-times larger than its Western Forelands project in the DRC, for its ...

Joint venture formed to explore Chu-Sarysu Basin, the world's third-largest sedimentary copper basinLicence package of up to ...

Since mining contributes to deforestation ... the environment has become a key pillar of Congolese diplomacy. Situated in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing 750 ...

Interview - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement ...

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Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

The company’s groundbreaking discoveries, such as Kamoa-Kakula in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Platreef deposit, ...

The United Nations is also “gravely concerned” at losing Bukavu’s Kavumu airport, which is now used by Congo’s military, she said. Néné Bintou, president of the civil society of South Kivu province, ...

A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

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

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines’ subsidiary Ivanplats and its partners have welcomed the positive and significant results from two ...