Three countries in Central Africa’s Congo Basin are being closely watched for the possibility of a future political upheaval or coups after the fall of the Bongo dynasty in neighboring Gabon. Cameroon ...

This tropical rainforest supports millions of people and is home to spectacular wildlife – but we’re not talking about the Amazon... This tropical rainforest supports millions of people and is home to ...

The Congo Basin is the world’s biggest tropical storehouse of carbon, its forest stretching almost across the African continent and covering an area larger than India. Yet little is known about it.

A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study. An international team of ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...

Scientists confirmed a new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo after more than a decade ...

On November 27, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) released a report on data it collected on human rights complaints procedures at 24 protected areas in four Congo Basin countries. The data showed ...

Nearly 300 people have died and 300,000 households have been affected, with tens of thousands of houses destroyed, DRC's ...

WWF, Climate Focus and COMIFAC's new discussion paper proposes strategies to mobilize international public and private finance to conserve Congo Basin forests. Conserving the forests of the Congo ...

This week, leaders from Indigenous women’s organizations, environment and land management groups and philanthropists are meeting in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, for a forum aimed ...

The Climate Security Advisor/UNOCA, Mabaye Dia, took part in the 2nd African Climate Summit held from 8 to 10 September 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the Summit, young people from the Congo ...

The Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest forest has distinct meteorological characteristics, and its ecosystem is controlled by complex interactions between many climatic phenomena that act across ...