DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

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

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and ...

The war-torn DRC has the largest tract of rainforest in the Congo Basin – at 1.6 million square-kilometres ... Large-scale hunting of elephants for ivory has occurred in Africa in different periods in ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have “occupied” a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said Sunday, as ...

Home to one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, the Congo Basin casts a sprawling natural tapestry across Central Africa. It is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, teeming with a ...

Some of the key issues lined up for discussions include the ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the ... will also include intra-Africa trade and development.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses said, as the British government warned the advance risks ...

Meanwhile, South Africa says at least 14 of its troops in DR Congo have been killed in the conflict. Also in this edition: Africans aren't optimistic about the difference their leaders are making.

and South Africa, which is believed to have deployed up to 3,000 troops to Congo as part of both a United Nations peacekeeping mission and a Southern African regional force tasked with helping ...