For the Baka people, the forest is the foundation of their identity. They believe they were created with the forest.

Defence Minister, Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita, has embarked on a visit to South Africa to strengthen bilateral defence relations ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals ...

A de facto ceasefire between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed rebels in the eastern Congo town of Walikale appeared to ...

There have been several attempts to resolve the spiralling conflict, rooted in the fallout from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and ...

“We are not scared of anybody. If we wanted to fight, we could have targeted the people that are behind this, but we did not opt for that. That is why Cyril Ramaphosa called [Rwanda President] Paul ...

Actress Marsai Martin styled her knotless box braids into sleek Bantu knots for a red carpet. Two braids at the top of her head were left down for a face-framing effect. Singer Tinashe shows that ...

A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a ... it "should be fairly easy to contain." People typically get malaria by being bitten ...

KAHN: The lyrics sing of the proud history of Rio's iconic hillside favelas, or shantytowns, filled with homes built by Bantus, the Africans Brazilians refer to who were forcibly brought here during ...

BUNIA, DR Congo — At least 23 people were killed and about 20 taken hostage this week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Con-go by a group linked to Islamic State, local sources told ...