The most accessible alternative? The highland sector of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, located on the opposite side of Lake Kivu, which has been a hotspot for charcoal and timber production since 2019.

The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again drawn global attention to the eastern Democratic ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a third major town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding their stranglehold over the country’s mineral-rich east. “The city of ...

Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu.

The formal establishment of an organization to manage Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi River basin, shared by Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, was never formally ratified by its member countries. That left the once ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Just over half the world’s population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage those water resources for the health of people ...

Since President Paul Kagame won the August 25, 2003 elections--Rwanda's first democratic elections after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi--the West has struggled to accept his leadership, with ...

Renewed Fighting in Eastern Congo as Neighbours Try to Revive Peace Process NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo battled militiamen allied with the ...

The world is full of deadly lakes that pose huge risk to life for both humans and animals. One of the deadliest on Earth is the Boiling Lake on the island of Dominica, where the water temperature ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening the sovereignty of the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa.