In addition to trade, the river is a major energy source in Africa. With its tremendous flow rate, it can produce an immense amount of power. The Congo Basin alone accounts for 13% of the world’s ...

Kinshasa: A boat overturned in southwestern Congo, claiming the lives of 25 people ... The vessel capsized on the Kwa River, said provincial spokesperson Alexis Mputu. To advertise here, Contact ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. At sunset ...

including boats and motorcycles to reach remote communities along the Congo River. The initiative aims to curb the spread of preventable diseases such as polio, measles and yellow fever which remain a ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

Using a unique field site in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev geologists have presented the first-ever time-dependent record of drainage divide migration rates. Prof. Liran Goren ...

Among those targeted is Corneille Nangaa, a former head of the DRC’s electoral commission, who now leads the Congo River Alliance—a coalition that includes M23. Nangaa has held public rallies in ...

The 25-year-old clung on to a black bin bag with some possessions as he used the strong currents to navigate his way across the Rusizi river, which forms the border between DR Congo and Burundi.

Natural and Cultural Resources of the Congo River Basin Figure 4. Waterfalls on the Congo river ... with only traces of weatherable minerals), very good drainage and permeability, strong cohesion of ...

Measuring roughly 4,700 kilometers (2,920 miles), the Congo River courses through the heart of Africa ... Spanning about 6,400 kilometers (3,977 miles), the Amazon courses through Peru, Colombia, and ...

Within days of Goma’s fall, Corneille Nangaa, the tubby, white-bearded leader of the Congo River Alliance, a coalition embracing the M23 and a spray of other rebel groups, announced that he planned to ...

Agricultural drainage and recent increases in annual precipitation have accelerated rates of bank and bluff erosion on the Le Sueur River, putting houses and local infrastructure at risk.