Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark COP30 report ...

A Grauer's gorilla is seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park in this undated handout picture distributed by the Wildlife Conservation ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The current outbreak of Ebola in eastern Congo's North Kivu province is taking ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will be the first region to receive an experimental Ebola vaccine that health officials believe will cease the spread of the infectious virus, reports CNN. On Monday, ...

The population of critically endangered mountain gorillas in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park increased 12.5 percent in the past 16 months according to a census conducted by the ...

LONDON – More than 600 children die every day in war-ravaged Congo and even more are displaced, sexually abused or swept into the camps of combatant groups, a UNICEF report said Monday. The report ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Africa’s greatest rainforest ecosystem, the Congo Basin, has undergone significant deforestation and degradation during the past century. A new ...