How traceability schemes have wound up hurting Congo’s people.

When it comes to conservation, even seemingly simple solutions have complex consequences. Fortress conservation works by drawing a boundary between humans and the rest of the natural world—with both paying a price.

After years of progress, a surge in rebel attacks has revived painful memories around the park in DRC, which also faces a threat of drilling within its boundaries

The M23 rebel group is back, threatening to take much of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and sparking wider regional tensions.

A new plan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will allow industrial logging after a 20-year pause. The Congo is the second largest rainforest, next to the Amazon.

Exclusive: African state says it has agreements with oil companies in Lake Chad area

On April 19, 2019, Cameroonian doctor Richard Mouzoko was assassinated in a hospital in Butembo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Les Jours" investigates how corruption, coercion, and the failures of the international response to the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in human history led to the murder.
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I joined an expedition in the Congolese rainforest where two British scientists have discovered the largest tropical peatlands in the world, storing more than 30 billion tons of carbon. 

Uganda’s open refugee policies inspired a major U.N. reform initiative, but international funds have not kept pace with its refugee crisis. In this analysis, Melanie Gouby examines what happens when model integration policies are not backed with adequate resources.

Joseph Kabila is taking advantage of the opposition's mistakes to extend his rule. But armed militias may be the eventual winners.

The host of the most recent episode of Black Market: Dispatches dives deeper into the illicit pangolin trade.

When we travelled to CAR in September, we visited three cities across the country, in antibalaka and Seleka-held territory, and found the same patterns repeated. Neither Muslims nor Christians talked about religion.

When Burundi's police raided Nyakabiga, a neighborhood in the capital Bujumbura, on Friday 11 December 2015, Egide Niyongere was at home. His body was found the next day at the morgue.

Evicted from their ancestral forest, indigenous Batwa people now just act out a previous life for tourists

Rebels defeated the Congolese army and took the city of Goma in late November. Who are these men threatening to take over the country's troubled east?