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 U.N. spokesperson and a local representative say that militiamen killed 11 people during an attack on a camp for the displaced in Congo’s northeastern Ituri province.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

But behind these polished tabletops and intricately carved armchairs lies a story of shadowy supply chains, porous borders, ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Congo will be allowed to continue participating in the World Cup qualifiers despite missing two fixtures in March when they were banned, world football's governing body FIFA said on Wednesday ...