In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the threaten ...

PBS' "Nature" documentary "Silverback" follows a group of eastern lowland gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with ...

By Marlowe Starling Revered by the Indigenous Mbuti and Efe tribes as a spiritual symbol and uplifted by the Democratic ...

GOMA, Congo—The women walk in silence, their flip flops tapping the black volcanic rocks, sometimes catching the plants that crop up in between. On open stretches of their five-hour march ...

The review was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in the wake of an outcry over a 2019 Buzzfeed News report on ...

Sex workers are among those hardest-hit by the mpox outbreak in eastern Congo's Kamituga town KAMITUGA, Congo -- It's been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker ...

Congolese authorities on Saturday began vaccination against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a global ...

Malanga, a father of eight, returned to the Congo to serve as an officer battling rebels and then later ran for office to fight government corruption. Marcel Malanga reportedly told the court his ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday, a local governor said. A frantic search and rescue operation was underway ...

KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) — It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving ...