Moo Deng, whose name means “bouncy pork”, shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that ...

The situation facing the Baka people is a familiar one for Indigenous communities across Africa who have faced ... across the lush rainforests of the Congo Basin for thousands of years.

Steve Boyes braves Africa's waterways to safeguard water security and preserve the continent's rich biodiversity. Read more ...

But Africa’s biggest forest by far is found a thousand miles to the south east, in the Congo Basin. The world’s ... They updated their map of Congolese peatlands and overlayed it on a map ...

The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that showed off her cute expressions and ...

High-level forest summits are coming up thick and fast. Gabon's One Forest Summit is set to get under way on 1 March, while, in the neighbouring Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso is ...

Formerly known as monkeypox, the infection has been on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which accounts for 96 per cent of all cases in Africa ... Here is a map of all the places ...

The war-torn DRC has the largest tract of rainforest in the Congo Basin – at 1.6 million square-kilometres ... Large-scale hunting of elephants for ivory has occurred in Africa in different periods in ...

Congo became a "pilot country" in the massive infrastructure project in the wake of Sassou's 2016 state visit to China. Two years later, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ... and put his ...