For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

Congo’s government will participate in peace talks in Angola on Tuesday with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has ...

This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the strategic town of Walikale in eastern Congo late Wednesday, according to residents and civil society leaders, a day after the Congolese and ...

Yet, in recent years, one critical forest has continued to shine as a beacon of hope in the battle against climate change – the Congo Basin. Now, with an ambitious new initiative in the ...

For every kilometre of first-cut road, the team found 4.8 kilometres of secondary roads in the Congo Basin, 9.8 in New Guinea, and 49.1 in the Amazon. The Amazon showed the most severe destruction ...

The WHO Africa office said the quick progression from sickness to death in Boloko is a key concern, along with the high number of deaths in Bomate. Congo’s Ministry of Health said about 80 per cent of ...

which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth. “All these viruses are viruses that have reservoirs in the forest.