The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

Mutual aid workers – the backbone of the humanitarian response in Sudan – have been caught up in the crackdown. The war in Sudan began in April 2023 and has produced the world’s largest displacement ...

The UN Human Rights Council launched an investigation Friday into alleged violations and abuses committed in the deadly ...

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million ...

A ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo doesn't appear to be holding, deputy U.N. envoy in Congo Vivian van de ...

WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

In recent years, carbon credits have become a possible counter-measure for the climate-conscious looking to offset their greenhouse gas emissions from air travel, for instance. They became so popular ...

Florence Wanza Munyao, a Kenya long-distance truck driver who had been kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hugs ...