Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke ...

Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke ...

The disaster occurred on Tuesday, when an explosion—believed to have been caused by a cooking fire—sparked a devastating ...

The floods left at least 70 dead, 150 injured, displaced over 21,000 people, and disrupted 73 health facilities.

The mayor of the DR Congo town near where a boat caught fire earlier this week told AFP on Saturday that at least 33 people ...

At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic ...

The Congo River's seasonal peaks are relatively well understood and monitored. But urban tributaries are harder to predict. DRC's meteorological agency Mettelsat and its partners are building ...

Local rains combined with runoff from torrential rains coming from neighbouring Congo Central Province quickly overwhelmed the city’s small urban tributaries. The Ndjili River and its tributary ...

Local rains combined with runoff from torrential rains coming from neighbouring Congo Central Province quickly overwhelmed the city's small urban tributaries. The Ndjili River and its tributary ...