I traveled the Congo River to explore a perilous timber trade that officials say is rife with corruption. The old-growth rainforest of Africa’s Congo Basin is second in size only to the Amazon ...

The World Bank said it is committing $1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare for the development of the ...

KINSHASA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The Congo River has risen to its highest level in more than 60 years, causing flooding throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Congo Republic that has ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), home to one of the largest tributaries of ...

Two boats have collided on the Congo River in western Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said, giving conflicting accounts on deaths. Alexis Mampa, chief of the Maluku municipality ...

A boat capsized in Congo’s northwest killing at least 27 people, and more than 70 others were missing, a senior government official said Saturday as rescuers searched frantically for survivors.

The Congo River is the world’s deepest and most powerful waterway. In its basin, a wilderness bigger than Alaska, natural resources abound - oil, gold, diamonds, rubber. But this river ...

Dozens were saved following the accident on the Congo River late on Tuesday night, many of them with bad burns. The search for the missing was underway Wednesday with rescue teams supported by the ...

ALBAWABA - Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Friday that a fire on an overloaded wooden boat on the Congo River had killed at least 148 people and left hundreds more missing.

Its capture puts the rebels within 400 km (250 miles) of Kisangani, which is the country's fourth-biggest city and has a bustling port at the Congo River's farthest navigable point upstream of the ...