The Congo River is a long, arcing river in West-Central Africa, featuring a rainforest and providing food and transport for 75 million people. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

A village on the bank of the Congo River, on March 30, 2015. Photo by Samuel Middleton. A handful of passengers transport goods, too. Mama Esther is one of them.

Out on the Congo River, this reality was right in our faces. Dionne Searcey is part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and author of the book, " In Pursuit of ...

SWANSONG: Time to bid farewell to the Congo River, after 500 miles downstream on an odyssey of adventure and discovery. Congo's Route 66 -- the grand boulevard pumping life into the giant nation ...

At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the Congo river at night, Democratic Republic of Congo’s humanitarian affairs minister said on ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A mysterious case of dying fish in the lower Congo River helped scientists discover that this body is the deepest river on the planet. It's also a place where raging rapids ...

This summer, NPR's West Africa correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and I took a 500-mile voyage down the Congo River, the life's blood of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It has, as one member of the first team to run the Inga Rapids on the Congo River put it, a "haunted vibe." Inga, which is actually a 50-mile series of rapids with football-field-sized whirlpools ...

The nearly 3,000-mile Congo River is the backbone of one of Africa's poorest and most conflict-ridden countries. A trip down the riverine highway reveals the often harsh and always colorful ...

Clad in a traditional tunic and trousers stenciled with colorful maps of Congo–“A Happy Country” the pattern says in French–he surveys his domain with satisfaction.