Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder ...

The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

Last chance tourism is a trend that finds many travelers going to far-flung destinations to see them before climate change ...

High-level forest summits ... chairing the Congo Basin Climate Commission. Scheduled for mid-June, that event aims to bring together countries from the Congo, Amazon and Borneo-Mekong tropical forest ...

A cornerstone of the law’s enforcement will be country risk benchmarking, which the European Commission should complete by ...

In November, INPE released preliminary figures showing a 31% decline in deforestation for the year ending July 31, 2024. However, INPE’s DETER alert system also recorded a sharp rise in forest ...

NAIROBI — An armed rebel group backed by Rwanda took full control of a key provincial capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, residents said, after days of bloody ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...

Three-year M23 insurgency has intensified in January Congo says Rwandan snipers killed military governor U.N. Security Council to meet on Sunday to discuss the crisis Jan 25 (Reuters ...