On February 16th soldiers from M 23 marched single-file through the streets of Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second-largest city.

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

By John Cannon Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President ...

When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the ...

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 River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Even if some foreign aid resumes after the 90-day suspension ordered by President Donald Trump, many USAID-backed projects focus on areas he has derided as ideological: climate change ...

In October 2024, climate activists in the DRC won the suspension of a controversial oil and gas licence auction that threatened the Congo Basin rainforest and Virunga National Park, two carbon ...

See All Key Ideas This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations ... Nature and Climate” in the Congo. Joining the REDD+ process, with the aim ...

Congo’s security forces were fighting on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) against Rwanda-backed rebels who advanced into a key eastern city in a major escalation of a decades-long conflict. Rwanda ...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel group has gained control of the airport in the eastern city of Goma, diplomatic and security sources told Reuters. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the AFC ...

People attack the Rwandan Embassy in Kinshasa, Congo's capital, on Tuesday, as they protest the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into eastern Congo's capital, Goma. (Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/The ...