The Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Central Africa, has endured decades of conflict and instability despite being ...

The fate of the rainforest matters not only for villages like Nkala but for the world’s climate. Forests are major carbon sinks, and only the Amazon stores more than the Congo Basin.

Dionne: The people I’ve met in Congo in the course of reporting on natural resources that are important on a global scale — cobalt and trees — are devastated by this imbalance.

The Democratic Republic Congo, faulted last year for murky reporting on its earnings from natural resources, has improved its accounting enough to be awarded full membership in an international ...

One emerging factor is that the Congo Basin (specifically the DRC) contains 70% of the world’s supply of cobalt among other valuable natural resources like timber, copper, oil and gas.

Officials from the United Nations and the Belgian Senate, both of which had investigated natural resource extraction in the Congo between 2000 and 2003, ... The Rainforest Foundation UK.

A vast rainforest stretches for 1,500 miles across central Africa. The mighty Congo River and its tributaries are the main highways into this hard-to-reach region.

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The Congo rainforest is losing its ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That’s bad for climate change. March 4, 2020 at 11:30 pm Updated March 15, 2020 at 8:12 am ...

The Congo rainforest is the world’s largest after the Brazilian Amazon. It is a peerless natural resource teeming with biodiversity, and home to 40 million people.

Congo should be one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. It has limitless water from the world’s second-largest river, timber and oil, as well as almost every valuable natural mineral ...

Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly environmental harm are the results of the violent competition for natural resources in eastern DRC.