For primate sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 has begun with panic, worry and uncertainty as ...

As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the humanitarian situation is fast deteriorating in neighbouring Burundi, with daily arrivals increasing through its ...

There is a 'mismatch' between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

The overall number of respiratory virus cases in hospital emergency departments dropped last week for the first time in five ...

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

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

In Goma, where the M23 has installed its own mayor, governor and other authorities, the group convened tens of thousands of people for a public meeting of the River Congo Alliance, a political ...

Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN mission in DR Congo, said Wednesday that “so far 2,000 bodies have been collected from the Goma streets in recent days, and 900 bodies remain in the ...