As the people of Congo report an increase in the sightings of the dinosaur Mokele-Mbembe, doubts arise about this fabled ...

Despite the enthusiasm for the strange dinosaur of the Congo, sightings of it became increasingly less common throughout the last century. However, this seems to be changing. According to National ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242 ...

M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

A weatherproof box and motion-trigger camera help photographer Will Burrard-Lucas capture images of rarely seen African ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

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Far from the well-trodden tourism path, the Central African nation of Gabon promises unparalleled access to nature at its ...

Far from the well-trodden tourism path, the Central African nation of ... and the Republic of the Congo on the continent’s Atlantic coast, is cloaked in rainforest. In 2002, then-president ...