The soft singing of workers rings out at daybreak in the Congolese village of Romee, whose wooded haven is threatened by a ...

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a ...

Congo-Brazzaville goes to the polls this weekend and 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso looks set to extend his decades-long rule. At the start of 2025, the government set a target of boosting ...

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...

Over the last decade, towns in the north of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have seen the increasing migration of Indigenous Batwa people, according to censuses seen by ...

The Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Forest Economy, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, has launched an investment plan for high-integrity forests in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal logging, harming local communities and risking the destruction of the world's ...

GEMENA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 31 (Reuters) - Simon Kasagana knows his meagre livelihood depends on the forest, but like many others eking out a living in the vast Congo basin, he has ...

Washington — The Congo Basin forest ecosystem is the world's second largest moist tropical forest, second only to the Amazon, and represents about one quarter of the globe's remaining closed canopy ...