Africa's top public health body has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo's Ituri province, the 17th since the disease first emerged in the country in 1976. A total of 246 suspected cases and 65 ...

The M23 armed group and Rwandan military forces carried out an abusive month-long occupation of the eastern Democratic ...

The films from the Central African Republic and Rwanda mark the first time those countries have appeared in the festival's ...

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually ...

TEHRAN- His lifelong journey, shared with his late brother Abdullah, took them from the Amazon to the Arctic. They left ...

The militia has seized around 45 mining assets, according to the CRG report. The most important is Rubaya, a town some 60km ...

Rebels in Congo say the United States has fallen short as a mediator in efforts to end the conflict in the African country’s mineral-rich east.

There’s the story about an explorer in the Congo who walked into a clearing and found a Pygmy standing beside the carcass of a monstrous crocodile. “Did you kill that?” he asked. “Yes,” the Pygmy ...

For the past six years, Trevor Evans has seen the number of endangered mountain pygmy possums at his sanctuary increase sixfold. The pocket-sized possums are traditionally found on the peaks of the ...

The Toronto Zoo says one of its endangered pygmy hippos is expecting a calf this summer. Kindia, Toronto’s very own “Moo Deng,” is a 20-year-old female pygmy hippopotamus living in the zoo’s African ...

Rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group killed at least 43 people in eastern Congo, officials said Thursday. Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, killed the civilians Wednesday ...

In the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the number of Indigenous Twa families leaving forests their ancestors relied on in the Congo Basin for urban centers in northern North Kivu, ...