GOMA, Congo (AP) — A mine collapse at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo left at least 200 dead, according to Congolese authorities, a number disputed by the rebel group that controls the ...

The derogatory title of his searing documentary film, “A Little Black Man from Congo” isn’t what South African filmmaker ...

Report Warns of Expanding Synthetic Drug Trade in West Africa A new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational ...

Featuring 20 musicians from 10 countries, the Burlington band led by Avi Salloway aims to foster cultural understanding during a fraught time for immigrants.

In a new study published in N ature Geoscience, the team focused on two darkly stained lakes shaped by organic runoff from ...

James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune, reportedly paid to witness an act of cannibalism in Congo, then made sketches of the horrifying scene ...

James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune, allegedly paid handkerchiefs to witness a young girl's death by cannibalism during an 1888 Congo expedition ...

WARING: DISTRESSING CONTENT James Sligo Jameson was heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune and joined Henry Morton Stanley's Congo expedition where witnesses claimed he gave handkerchiefs to see a ...

In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...

The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of ...