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 ...

The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same ...

Members of the Polish parliament should reject a bill that would allow the government to temporarily suspend the right to ...

For the next four years, the relationship between the United States and Africa will not be favourable. We must brace for tougher and rougher ...

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong ...

Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for U.S.-based users of Google Maps. Mexico's President Claudia ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...

The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 insurgent fighters have seized Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Congo. M23’s latest advance in the region marks the group’s most significant ...

Bukavu's fall, if confirmed, marks the armed group's most significant advance since it revived a decade-old insurgency in ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have “occupied” a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said Sunday, as ...