In East Africa, a lack of border controls and widespread fraud facilitate the illegal timber trade, which has become increasingly mainstream.

Street lights erase the shadows where attackers once hid. Noisy, polluting diesel generators have gone silent. New businesses ...

Bonobos live south of the Congo River. Chimpanzees inhabit areas to the north ... Initially, researchers considered bonobos a subspecies of chimpanzees, referring to them as "pygmy chimpanzees" until ...

Gold miner Twangiza Mining SA has accused Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of forcing its employees to work against their will and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the decades-long ...

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has ...