Out on the Congo River, this reality was right in our faces. Dionne Searcey is part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and author of the book, " In Pursuit of ...

During a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Globe reporter learned how the billionaire is bringing broadband to ...

At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the Congo river at night, Democratic Republic of Congo’s humanitarian affairs minister said on ...

Barges plying the Congo River carry the lion's share of goods to the giant county's remote interior. Life aboard is a colorful, cacophonous menagerie of humans and animals. Some of the monkeys and ...

Corneille Nangaa, leader of Congo River Alliance — known by its French acronym AFC — which includes M23, told The Associated Press in March that direct peace talks with Congo can only be held if the ...

The Congo River is the only real highway in the vast Central African nation. Barges traverse the river like floating villages crowded with up to 2,000 people, mainly traders and their goods, from ...

STORY: Residents in Democratic Republic of Congo use shovels to paddle their way through flooded streets now clogged with discarded plastic bottles and other debris.The Congo River has risen to ...

I traveled the Congo River to explore a perilous timber trade that officials say is rife with corruption. The old-growth rainforest of Africa’s Congo Basin is second in size only to the Amazon ...

We've called the series "River of Life - Congo Odyssey." This summer, NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and I took a 500-mile voyage down the Congo River, the life's blood of ...

The nearly 3,000-mile Congo River is the backbone of one of Africa's poorest and most conflict-ridden countries. A trip down the riverine highway reveals the often harsh and always colorful ...

At least 29 people have been killed in flood waters and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, following unusually heavy rains in the dry season, the interior ministry has ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The United States will work with local leaders here in the Congo River basin to ensure that planned fossil-fuel extraction won’t result in a climate ...