There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

A global alert is not an option. It requires global action. Over the past three years, the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children in need of urgent quality education support has grown by an ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group have been surging through the country's east, battling the national army and capturing key places as ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The State Department ordered non-emergency US government personnel and their family members to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo amid escalating violence in the country and its capital city ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

DAILY POST reports that CODECO is one of a myriad of militias fighting over land and resources in eastern Congo. It has been accused in the past by the United Nations of attacks against other ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government ...

(Reuters) - Congo authorities will put at least 75 soldiers on trial on Monday for fleeing the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into the eastern province of South Kivu and for violence against ...