But navigating this powerful river isn’t easy. The Congo’s lower course has 32 cataracts and dangerous rapids, including the famous Inga Falls, making river sections impassable. Historically ...

Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the government of the DRC let them fall into disrepair. Now river traffic consists largely of barges (top) and pirogues (center).

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

As the 10th-widest waterfall, Inga Falls spans 3,000 feet in the lower Congo River. The water flows here at a rate of about 1.5 million cubic feet per second — for comparison, Niagara Falls ...

China’s state-owned Three Gorges Corporation has decided to withdraw from the Grand Inga Dam project, a massive hydroelectric initiative on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).