For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Dear critical reader, tragically, the world has, for the most part, ignored the devastating war in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo .

The recent diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda is not an isolated incident but rather a symptom of a much bigger issue. It is a part of a long, ongoing struggle between African nations and ...

140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic ...

The international response to the cruel treatment of Africans forced King Leopold II to make the Congo Free State a colony of Belgium. It was then known as the Belgian Congo, until it gained its ...

Inside the world's 'most expensive mansion' on sale for £306million on the French Riviera and once home to a king ...