The river connects nine African countries along its nearly 3,000-mile journey to the Atlantic Ocean, but its identity is inseparable from that of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Lungfishes: Species of the Protopteridae (African lungfishes) family are air-breathing ... Fish don’t just swim anywhere in the rivers of the Congo River Basin. In fact, most of them are picky and ...

southern Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea - extending well beyond the actual limits of the Congo River Basin. The forests of the Congo River Basin stretch from the Ruwenzori ...

About 50 people have died after a boat capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The vice-governor of Tshuapa province in the north of the country said the cause of ...

The torrent of mud also destroyed homes, farmland, and a local cooperative building in the farming town of Nkubi.

Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories DR Congo profile Congo: A river journey DR Congo's humanitarian affairs minister Steve Mbikayi told the BBC that he had received reports that the ...

Burst riverbanks are causing turmoil in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa, with dark and foul-smelling water pouring into homes across working-class neighbourhoods in the central African megacity.

Stretching an astonishing 4,132 miles across the African continent, the Nile River holds the title of the longest river in ...

About 600 million people across sub-Saharan Africa remain without access to electricity, even in some major cities, according ...