Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been embroiled in yet another controversy after it emerged that she allegedly used the country's animals to settle a Democratic Republic of Congo (

The Kabobo Natural Reserve, together with the adjoining Ngandja and Luama Katanga Reserves, protects nearly 7,000 square kilometers of important habitat for biodiversity, watersheds and forests nea

The 85-member consortium has met annually since it was first launched in 2002 by then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Detailed spatial understanding of levels and trends in under-5 mortality is needed to improve the targeting of interventions to the areas of highest need, and to understand the sources of variation in mortality. To improve this understanding, we analysed local-level information on child mortality across sub-Saharan Africa between 1980–2010.

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GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - From dusk till dawn, an ongoing stream of people crisscrosses La Petite Barriegrave;re, one of the two main borders that divide Rwanda and DRC.

Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 percent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world's biggest primate close to extinction, a Red List of endang

Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow

Human activities have taken a heavy toll on our environment. But there may be some hope, researchers say.

New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in one of the world's most important fisheries.

In an operation led by the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) between July 28 and August 2, wildlife enforcement teams arrested two businessmen in the Republic of the Congo believed to be involved

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