Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the ... 5 million-square-mile river basin’s immense hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden ...
They feed on insect larvae, such as mosquitoes, and may be important for disease control. Fish don’t just swim anywhere in the rivers of the Congo River Basin. In fact, most of them are picky and will ...
Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories DR Congo profile Congo: A river journey DR Congo's humanitarian affairs minister Steve Mbikayi told the BBC that he had received reports that the ...
The Congo River Basin covers a massive area concentrated in a narrow band of land that straddles the equator. The basin is drained by the Congo River and covers approximately 3.7 million km 2, ...
About 50 people have died after a boat capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The vice-governor of Tshuapa province in the north of the country said the cause of ...