Congo has launched a plan for the world's largest protected area - but Indigenous and local people say they haven't been ...

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The question has caused a rift, even among the country’s religious leaders – though the vast majority firmly say ... Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba ...

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FURTHER information regarding the dwarfs of the north-eastern part of the Congo Basin is one of the main desiderata in African anthropology. We therefore turned to this volume hoping, from its ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

It reached new heights in recent weeks as they seized control of large swathes of territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and now, are advancing on the regional capital Goma.

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have vowed to take their fight to the country's capital – but their attempts to march south are have been met by resistance. Rwanda-backed rebels ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo fighting ...

Bodies lie rotting in the streets, and hospitals have been overwhelmed with casualties in Goma, a city of 2 million people in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).