For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...

Sad Chimpanzee. Image via Depositphotos. The archetypal “Man’s closest relative,” the Common Chimpanzee can be found swinging through the Congo Basin’s trees. These highly intelligent primates exhibit ...

In this village in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tanganyika province ... This accounts for 4.8% of the province’s total tree cover loss and 8% of its primary rainforest ...

The leader may use these or similar words to introduce the blessing: This tree is a blessing to our home. It reminds us of all that is beautiful, all that is filled with the gentleness and the ...

New research has found that one species of the enormous Goliath beetles has been almost wiped out by the west African cocoa ...

Feb. 20, 2025 — Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern ...

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic ...

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an afterthought. A bloody conflict is met with condemnations but no meaningful action. This stark contrast is not just neglect ...

With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional war.