The river connects nine African countries along its nearly 3,000-mile journey to the Atlantic Ocean, but its identity is inseparable from that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Several massive projects worth billions are being drafted or constructed in Africa to cater for the continent's growing ...

Congo’s government has accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east ...

southern Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea - extending well beyond the actual limits of the Congo River Basin. The forests of the Congo River Basin stretch from the Ruwenzori ...

From left to right: 1) African mahogany Khaya nyasica Liwonde National Park, Malawi. 2) Tropical Flowering Dogwood Mussaenda erythrophylla Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic . 3) ...

This stretch of the Congo river is a thousand miles long and navigable ... mainly Africans - opened up the interior of central Africa to Europeans. The Congo river here is dramatic, stretching ...

Burst riverbanks are causing turmoil in DR Congo's capital ... in the central African megacity. The impoverished metropolis of some 15 million people sits on the Congo River -- the second largest ...