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 ...

If deforestation and forest degradation continue unchecked, at least 27 percent of the undisturbed rainforests in the Congo ...

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.