The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly ...

In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry. The river, ...

Today's newsletter focuses on the devastating floods in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that killed ...

By Mongabay.com The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” ...

Kinshasa faces two distinct flood hazards: first, flooding from the Congo River, which typically peaks around ... that 38 territories are the hotspot of flooding in the Congo basin.

The changes can be seen near the town of Rubaya, where M23 has moved quickly to tighten its grip on a slice of Congo’s vast mineral wealth. Small, artisanal mines there produce around one-sixth ...

In Congo, M23 Rebels’ Latest Fight Is to Revive the Economy By David Lewis, Giulia Paravicini and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The M23 insurgents who routed Congo ...

The intensifying security crisis in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years is undermining ...

The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is daunting: governing. The long-term ...