Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

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

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji discusses his International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Competition entry, the importance of sound Pier Paolo Pasolini adaptation he is hoping to make.

The Congo River Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups including M23, said in an open letter to the summit that they are ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

New research says the world's peatlands — squishy, waterlogged, buggy habitats — are vastly under-protected, despite the critical role they play in regulating the environment. "17 per cent of ...

Mt Kilimanjaro, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mt Kenya are Africa’s three highest points. Here’s how to stand atop the world’s wildest land.

These activities, which have bypassed international protection standards and Congolese law, are wreaking havoc on the landscape along the Ituri River ... as the Congo Basin rainforest serves ...