Africa’s great Congo Basin rainforest, often called the Earth’s second lung, covers an area about the size of India. Millions ...

Treasures Of Earth And Pristine Nature. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the giants of the African ...

In June, when Trump announced that he had brought peace to eastern Congo, he described it as “a glorious triumph.” But the ...

Can Africa rescue its own biodiversity before the losses become irreversible? This is a question that once hovered at the edges of policy conversations, raised by scientists and conservationists but ...

The region’s abundant biodiversity is also enduring an intense fallout from the fighting, but a new global ...

Africa’s young population will make up a quarter of humanity by 2050. To capitalize on it, the continent needs to fix its power problems fast ...

Officials say the corridor will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, thereby providing more economic options so people are not pressured to join armed groups due to poverty.

The Swiss-based conservation group filed its complaint on Monday with Britain's Department for Business Innovation and Skills in a bid to stop SOCO International's exploration in Congo's Virunga ...

POWELL -- A Laramie-based journalist who investigated the killing of gorillas in central Africa spoke Monday about the global connection between those animals, a long-running guerilla war and the ...

Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning ...

Two gorillas have been snapped apparently mimicking human behavior in a remarkable selfie with a park ranger who helped rescue them as babies. The photo, taken by a worker at Virunga National Park in ...