Antique maps and other geological archives are at the heart of an increasingly ugly showdown between Belgium’s colonial museum and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Alfred Mamba remembers the frenzy that gripped the soccer stadium in Zaire, now known as Congo, as the fierce heavyweight ...

The historic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is still revered as a cherished moment in the central African country's troubled... 50 years on, D.R. Congo commemorates boxing's 'Rumble in ...

This is where the 1973 oil shock comes in. By the early 1970s, Egypt and Syria were determined to avenge their defeat in the ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( To the cartographers of the modern conservation world, the forests of northeastern Gabon can appear almost empty. Satellite images show a deep green canopy stretching across ...

The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published in New Phytologist shows that one of South ...

A women-organized music festival in Goma brings thousands together to push back against violence and call for peace.

Across the central Congo Basin lies a bastion of carbon that scientists are just beginning to understand. First mapped only ...

The Capcom Showcase has arrived and it revealed a ton of new details for games previously announced. While there weren't any new game announcements, we did finally learn about the long-awaited ...

Beat the high score and experience big-time pinball fun for your iPhone, iPad and iPod! Crazy Pinball is the classic game of skill. On the lovingly designed table you can surpass yourself and prove ...

Lewis Mudge, Human Rights Watch’s Central Africa director, and Clémentine de Montjoye, senior Great Lakes researcher, ...