Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

A terrorizing presence since the 1980s, Gustave has lurked in the shadows for well over a decade. Now, a herpetologist dives ...

Rebels advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time called on ...

Boxes of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) at the MANA Nutrition Factory in Fitzgerald, Georgia where they are being ...

I am an American, doctoring in this central African nation ... I looked across Lake Tanganyika to the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is a war going on there, with thousands dying so that ...

The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation ... Rwanda denies backing the rebels. Map locates Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda.

In April 2024, unusually heavy rain in south-western Burundi caused a landslide that flattened nearly 500 homes in the village of Gabaniro, Rumonge province. A young child was killed, 2,500 people ...

PURA has completed the preparation of a map indicating areas that will be auctioned in the fifth round, which includes 26 blocks, with 23 in deep sea and three in Lake Tanganyika, he stated. Fifth ...

Tim Butcher was for a while the Daily Telegraph’s man in Africa. In 2002, he chose a lull in the conflict ... between October 1876 and September 1877 from the western shore of Lake Tanganyika to the ...

They exported valuable ivory, gold and slaves from Africa. Textiles and foodstuffs were shipped from other countries. In the 16th century, Portuguese ships arrived on the shores of Tanganyika and ...

The M23 is now moving towards the town of Uvira near the Burundi border on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika -- the main exit route for fleeing Congolese soldiers. Around 42,000 people have ...

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...