Congo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces rages around the ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

Read full article: Cool and cloudy Monday, then damp mornings and rain chances this week These ... The M23 rebel group's advance toward eastern Congo's largest city has displaced over 178,000 ...

Earlier this month Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Biden administration decision to block ...

Explosions rocked the ground in the main city in DR Congo's east on Friday as intensifying ... A handful of civilians could be seen fleeing in the rain. Shells or rockets, supposedly fired by ...

Luggage on their backs, they trudged all Wednesday morning along the road leading to downtown Goma, fleeing the advancing fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Streams of displaced ...

"We call on our government to supply us with weapons," he added, addressing to a group of young people dripping in the rain. In downtown Goma, where the distant sound of weapons echoes out now and ...

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