The Democratic Republic of Congo, the undisputed heavyweight champion of wasted potential, has launched its tourism campaign: Visit DRCongo. Yes, you are not mistaken but heard it right. The same DRC ...

Nevertheless, the long-term impacts of the latest bout of conflict in eastern DRC on conservation are unlikely to be straightforward, even if the overall effect is negative.

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 2,600km long ...

AFP via Getty Images The DRC is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a key mineral used to make the lithium-ion batteries that go into electric vehicles and smartphones.

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the Rwandan-backed militant group M23 which recently captured swaths of land in the east.

Is Eastern DRC still on the map of the world? If so, why is nobody paying attention to what’s unfolding there? If it was them in Goma today, hiding in their homes, trying to protect their ...

D eadly floods currently being experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are becoming ever-more likely as the world’s climate warms, new research has found.

How the world keeps failing eastern DRC Old ‘peace-building’ schemes are obsolete in a country that is seeing new and ever-changing political and conflict dynamics.

The foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a new peace agreement on 27 June 2025 ...

Health officials are working to understand the illness, which may have killed up to 143 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa, only behind Algeria, and the 11th largest in the world. With a land area of 905,000 square miles (2.34 million ...