The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest.While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix Mangombe up ...

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

Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage ...

Conflict still occurs over shared waters; however, since the late 1800s, and particularly since the end of World War II, cooperation has been the dominant interaction between countries in the world’s ...

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs’s keynote address at the Ọbafẹmi Awolọwọ Memorial Webinar, ‘Our 21st Century World: Reflections and ...

A Sh1.7 billion initiative has been launched to restore degraded land, create jobs and boost climate resilience.

KITWE, Zambia (AP) — Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a ...

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

The ongoing violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which keeps escalating, risks spreading to the entire nation and even becoming regional if there is no immediate ...