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We fly a drone over rain-soaked lands, where until a year ago one of the agricultural projects of Eni Congo, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni, was located. The project was managed by the ...
A national park associated with Prince Harry in the Republic of the Congo has acknowledged that its guards committed human rights abuses against Indigenous peoples who were displaced when the park ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Program, about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and cuts to WFP funding.
"School meals for peace" is what Congo needs to overcome hunger, poverty and conflict. It is a quest we can all support while remembering those tragically lost on this noble journey, writes ...
Congo's national museum has languished for years, decades after former dictator-president Mobutu Sese Seko built it as part of his quest to redefine the country's identity after ...
About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest national park in all of Africa.
A recently published paper reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging strategy to access a species of deer truffle, identified as Elaphomyces ...
A curator said the coffin containing the gold-capped tooth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba was broken into.
For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as forests vanish, sightings are on the rise—offering a glimpse into how ...
An intensifying conflict between Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army and the Tutsi-led M23 rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, has disrupted food supplies to the eastern city of Goma ...