By Mongabay.com The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” ...

The longest rivers in the world stretch over thousands of kilometres. From the Amazon to the Nile, they are crucial to human ...

Many people, especially Indigenous communities, depend on the Congo Basin for food, water, and materials to support their farming. In some parts of the DRC, Cameroon, and Gabon, economic hardship has ...

Locals have dubbed such levies “the Nangaa tax,” after the head of the Congo River Alliance, whose men are responsible for the tax hikes. Neither Nangaa nor a spokesman for M23 responded to ...

REUTERS/Nacho Doce/ File Photo KINSHASA, May 2 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it had become the latest African country to grant a licence to tech billionaire Elon Musk ...

Rachelle Monimpo, cloth seller in Goma Corneille Nangaa – a Congolese politician who heads the Congo River Alliance, a coalition of insurgent groups that includes M23 – thinks otherwise.

But in January, M23, the most prominent of the militias in Mr. Nangaa’s Congo River Alliance, seized the regional capital of Goma, and he got a new gig: overseeing a city government. Now ...

Toms River is moving to acquire Christ Episcopal Church, potentially through eminent domain, to create a recreation area. The church, which has a proposal pending to open a homeless shelter ...

AND MORE BREAKING NEWS THIS AFTERNOON. THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE BODIES OF TWO GIRLS ARE RECOVERED FROM THE MISSOURI RIVER. IT COMES AFTER THREE OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS STUDENTS ...

With 272 of 272 polls reporting, incumbent Michael Cooper, of the Conservative Party, is projected to be re-elected in St. Albert—Sturgeon River. As of 4:22 p.m., Cooper has 49,181 of 76,957 ...

For 27 years, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival issued two official souvenir prints, the standard annual poster and the Congo Square poster that honored the continued African influence in ...