Nearly a million people within the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced from their homes this year, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday.

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

Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the intelligence services, the U.N. High ...

Azima Magonde Giston is walking through his cacao plantation, which sits on the fringes of a lush rainforest in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He scans the trees for ...

PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Saturday his Congolese counterpart had refused ...

Harvard scientists reveal a 'treasure trove' of new information about mysterious voids in the African rainforest that appear ...

"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close-packed trees, dense humidity, and the din of animal calls. But ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as elsewhere in the world, the ICRC works according to its principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence. Its role is to protect the lives and ...

The Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have indiscriminately shelled displacement camps and other densely populated areas ...

The Congo snake, often shrouded in mystery and myth, has captured the imagination of people around the world, particularly with tales of a giant snake reportedly sighted by Belgian pilot Colonel Remy ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — A regional court in East Africa opened proceedings on Thursday in a case filed by Congo against ...

The wooden huts rise from the floor of the Amazon and the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, stilts protecting precious resources inside from the heavy downpours for which the regions are so famous.