The Democratic Republic of Congo, the undisputed heavyweight champion of wasted potential, has launched its tourism campaign: Visit DRCongo. Yes, you are not mistaken but heard it right. The same DRC ...

African countries, however, fare very badly on life evaluation and Uganda, which is the best in East Africa, is ranked at 112 globally out of 140 countries. Ethiopia, whose mean life evaluation is ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

Trump said he sees "great economic potential in Africa" as the leaders boasted of their countries' natural resources and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda plan to sign a landmark truce agreement in Washington on Friday, marking a potential turning point after decades of conflict in eastern Congo. The ...

Female bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo won 85 percent of conflicts with males over a period of 30 years, a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications Biology found.

“The Herds” organizers say the significance of starting in Congo lies in the fact that the country is home to the second biggest rainforest in the world.

About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest national park in all of Africa.

The World Health Organization has recorded more than 400 cases of a mysterious deadly flu-like illness dubbed “Disease X” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is struggling to un… ...

The mysterious flu-like disease has killed dozens in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly women and children, officials said.

Fighting is raging in eastern Congo despite the government signing a cease-fire agreement with the M23 rebels. Civilians are trapped in a violent spiral involving M23 rebels, SADC troops and other ...

The Congo has been a notable exception to this extreme deforesting trend—but that’s partly because the rainforest has played host to one of the bloodiest sustained conflicts since the Second ...