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... Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation First ...

KINSHASA, CongoKINSHASA, Congo — In a country of dense rain forests with few paved roads, boarding an overcrowded boat on a treacherous river is simply a way of life. This weekend, journeys on the ...

The Congo River, the world's deepest, flows through six West-Central African nations, forming a vast basin supporting rich biodiversity and 75 million people. This vital river, which crosses the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been in the headlines in recent days. The African nation -- its eastern part is known as the rape capital of the world -- was the focus of a U.N. Security ...

It's not just the world's biggest rapid by volume, one that had never successfully been run before. It's also a rapid steeped in the history of explorer Henry M. Stanley (of Stanley and Livingstone), ...

New research provides compelling evidence that a group of strange-looking fish living near the mouth of the Congo River are evolving due to the intense hydraulics of the river's rapids and deep ...

ROME (AFP) – An offshore rig belonging to Italy's Saipem has sunk off the coast of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo after the seabed collapsed under one of its legs, the company said on ...

There are two new burial grounds in this steamy river town. Gaston Nyimu Kaya built one. It looks like a small Arlington cemetery.”We buried the people we could identify here,” says Nyimu, the young ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Aruwimi River is a tributary of the Congo River, located to the north and east of the Congo. The Aruwimi begins as the Ituri River, which ...

Thierry Michel's "Congo River, Beyond Darkness" plunges the viewer into a two-hour trek up the 2,500-mile Congo river from its mouth to its distant source. This exploration of post-colonial Africa is ...

On Tell Me More Thursday, I joined NPR Correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton for a conversation about our Congo River series which aired this week on Morning Edition. During the conversation with Tony ...

Being the world's deepest river, the Congo River comes in top on this list. It forms a 4,700 km system that passes through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Angola and ...