Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction ...

On the border between eastern India and western Myanmar, the Chin Human Rights Organization suspended its US-funded ...

Recent data tell us that tropical Africa has lost about 22 per cent of its forested a.   rea since 1900, which is comparable to the losses in the Amazon.

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...

Australia: A Continent of Lethal Creatures Australia has earned a global reputation for being home to some of the most lethal ...

The M23, which is supported by thousands of Rwandan troops, briefly seized Goma during its last insurgency over a decade ago, and had stated ( in interviews with our reporters) that it would not do so ...

Bryony Cottam meets a doctor dedicated to combating malaria and other deadly diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Thursday night brought a big change to Davos — and not just because it snowed for the first time all week. At just past 5 p.m., U.S. President Donald Trump presented his “America First” priorities ...

Clashes between the DRC army and M23 rebels near Goma have displaced over 400 000 people, sparking fears of a regional war, warns the UN.

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...