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Street lights erase the shadows where attackers once hid. Noisy, polluting diesel generators have gone silent. New businesses ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the U.S. to help end the ...
At a transboundary scale, on 30 May in Lusaka the Water Convention Secretariat supported the third technical negotiations between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the development of ...
About 80 kilometers from the city of Kisangani in Tshopo Province lies the Isangi territory. This remote territory can be accessed by a boat ride through the deepest river in the world, River Congo, ...
Analysis - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2 ...
In the 1880s, as Europe was scrambling for colonies in Africa, one major player, Belgium’s King Leopold II, claimed the Congo River basin as his own possession. In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton ...
(MENAFN) A Chinese researcher has employed satellite-based remote-sensing technology to accurately identify the source of the Congo River, Africa’s second-longest waterway, and measured its ...
The Congo lies between the all-black Gold Coast, where 4,500,000 Negroes are close to independence under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, and unhappy South Africa, where Boer Prime Minister Johannes ...
Gode Bola receives funding support from the Congo River User Hydraulics and Morphology (CRuHM) project (2016-2021), which was entirely funded by The Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building (RS ...
Analysis - 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 ...
When the Union of South Africa formed in 1910, Basutoland remained under British rule, avoiding South Africa’s apartheid policies, and later gained independence in 1966 as Lesotho.