For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

Sanctions have led to increasing oil leaks, deforestation, and destruction of natural environments due to the necessity to ...

Spanning nearly a tenth of the vast Congo Basin’s rainforest, the transboundary ... Human population density and deforestation rates are generally low, making the entire region a high-priority ...

Congo rainforest is the second largest ... blames politics for the sorry state of the rainforest. "Deforestation is going on and the equatorial forest has been allocated to private investors ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly ...

The Republic of Congo’s minister of mines has issued ... This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo ... due to continued deforestation and ...