The fighting escalated earlier this year when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized Goma, followed by another ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river in West-Central Africa, featuring a rainforest and providing food and transport for 75 million people. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Barges plying the Congo River carry the lion's share of goods to the giant county's remote interior. Life aboard is a colorful, cacophonous menagerie of humans and animals. Some of the monkeys and ...

The Congo River has risen to its highest level in more than 60 years, causing flooding throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Congo Republic that has killed more than 300 people ...

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

It has, as one member of the first team to run the Inga Rapids on the Congo River put it, a "haunted vibe." Inga, which is actually a 50-mile series of rapids with football-field-sized whirlpools ...

At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the Congo river at night, Democratic Republic of Congo’s humanitarian affairs minister said on ...

An island in the Congo River was once a prime vacation hub and prosperous rubber plantation. Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.

Thierry Michel's "Congo River, Beyond Darkness" plunges the viewer into a two-hour trek up the 2,500-mile Congo river from its mouth to its distant source. This exploration of post-colonial Africa ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...