For the Congo Basin, 2021 proved to be an up-and-down year. Funding commitments totaling in the billions of dollars were announced that would help forested countries preserve some of the ...

The peatlands of the Congo Basin are perhaps the most intact in the tropics, but threats from logging, agriculture and extractive industries could cause their rapid degradation, scientists say. In ...

(Nairobi) – Police fired on protesters in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 20, 2021, killing three people including a 6-month-old baby, Human Rights Watch said today. At ...

BOLOMBA TERRITORY, Democratic Republic of Congo — The parishioner approached the pastor after morning prayer to tell him she’d had a dream the night before — a premonition, really — that a White man ...

Congo attacks show Islamic State’s expansion across Africa Group's widening footprint on continent could pose new global threat Police officers inspect the scene of a bomb explosion in Beni, eastern ...

May 24 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's copper exports rose 12.3% in 2021 to 1.798 million tonnes and cobalt exports increased by 7.4% to 93,011 tonnes, mines ministry data showed on Tuesday ...

The Ugandan government says it is targeting rebels it accuses of terrorist attacks in Kampala. Many Congolese fear the incursion is cover for yet another plundering of their country. By Abdi Latif ...

Editor’s Note: Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor, senior fellow at Harvard School of Public Health and author of the forthcoming book: “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers ...