Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

Found in the DRC’s Ituri Forest, a part of the Congo Basin rainforest, they’re popular favorites at zoos around the world.

In 2022, Global Forest Watch documented a record 1,920 hectares ... which is most prevalent along the Ituri River and National Route 4, between Mambasa and Nia-Nia. The problem has grown over ...

The MLC tried twice to establish a foothold in Ituri: in 2001 Bemba had nominal control of the short-lived FPC coalition of Ugandan- backed rebel groups and in 2002 the MLC attacked Mambasa in ...

Dozens of conflicts plague DRC, not least in Kivu provinces near Ituri Ituri, in the far east of the vast DRC, is thousands of kilometers from the capital Kinshasa. The country has been plagued by ...

The Okapi reserve covers nearly 14,000 sq km (5,400 sq miles) and protects part of the Ituri forest near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda.

Ituri is often described as the bloodiest corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite three peace agreements purportedly ending the five year-old Congolese war, fighting in ...