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

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Armed men have raped dozens of children in eastern Congo over the past weeks, UNICEF says. It comes as rebels expand their footprint in the area and push government forces out. At such a critical ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

South Africa will hold the rotating presidency of the G20. Given its position as Africa’s most industrialised nation and an ...

The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

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

The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), which has consistently opposed the death penalty, maintains its stance. Speaking to La Croix International, Monsignor Donatien Nshole ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

A U.S. pause on foreign aid has had a "major impact" in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where humanitarian operations last ...

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