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

After hours spent at sea, fisherman Guy Bayonne Balou and his crew return to the southern shore of the Republic of Congo with ...

On February 16th soldiers from M 23 marched single-file through the streets of Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second-largest city.

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to Angolan Foreign Minister Tete Antonio on Wednesday about finding "a peaceful end ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President ...

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

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

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two key cities in Congo's mineral-rich east in less than a month after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against overstretched and weakened Congolese ...

And when President Donald Trump issued among his first executive orders a directive to rename what was formerly known as the ...

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