The basin is drained by the Congo River and covers approximately 3.7 million km 2, slightly more than the size of India and France put together. A massive forest expanse of 1.5 million km 2 covers the ...

The torrent of mud also destroyed homes, farmland, and a local cooperative building in the farming town of Nkubi.

With roads scarce in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), freight ... More than 2,000 species of animals live in the Congo River Basin. The greatest threat to many is the commercial ...

The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.

the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo — house the majority of forests in the Congo Basin which account for 70 per cent of forests on the ...

They have lived as hunter-gatherers across the lush rainforests of the Congo Basin for thousands of ... keep environments inviolate. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kahuzi-Biega National ...

About 50 people have died after a boat capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The vice-governor of Tshuapa province in the north of the country said the cause of ...

Boats carrying passengers on the Congo River are often poorly maintained and crowded At least 60 people have drowned after a boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.

the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Egypt. About 86 percent, however, of the Nile River Basin ...

Floods have wreaked chaos in Kinshasa - the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo - with water pouring into homes and residents navigating submerged roads via canoe. The overflowing River ...