Traditional music and dance remain central to the cultural life of many indigenous forest communities in the Congo Basin. Gatherings often feature rhythmic singing, percussion, and coordinated ...

Over the last decade, towns in the north of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have seen the increasing migration of Indigenous Batwa people, according to censuses seen by ...

In 1906, a young Congolese man was locked in a cage at the Bronx Zoo and displayed alongside an orangutan. He was not the first. The United States government had been transporting indigenous people ...

The Trump administration’s cuts to biodiversity funding have imperiled species, habitats and the people who defend both. Now the world is seeking a new way forward ...

Explore the world's oldest forests, from Australia's 180-million-year-old Daintree to Japan's Yakushima with trees over 7,000 years old, each offering unique ecosystems and wildlife.

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics attributed some of the reduction in population among the minorities to those who failed to disclose their ethnicities, while locals say many of them either migrated or ...

Congolese and Rwandan officials have agreed on coordinated steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo where Congo is ...

Ballots are being counted in the Republic of Congo after a presidential vote that keeps Denis Sassou N’Guesso on track for a ...

Fighting between M23 militia and Congolese forces spreads across South Kivu province, displacing half a million people and ...

Gdansk Zoo recently welcomed a female pygmy hippo calf born as part of a breeding program aimed at protecting one of Africa's ...

In the back of a 4X4, a nurse cleaned a gash in a boy's arm, picked up from living rough on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of one of the world's poorest countries. The Democratic Republic of ...

Denis Sassou Nguesso, the 82-year-old president of Republic of Congo, is seeking another five-year term in an election on ...