DAKAR, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has cancelled a licensing round for 27 oil blocks, originally launched in 2022 to tap into the nation's oil and gas potential ...

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When RPDH (Transparency International in Congo) arrived in Komono to help the community design and monitor UN forest protection projects, we found Bantu and Pygmy residents driven apart by logging.

Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to ... in 1904 where he and others were exhibited as "pygmies" The account, of course, contradicted ...

All of Nzigire Kanigo's children have contracted mpox, including two-year-old Ansima Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected by the current outbreak of mpox ...

By Elian Peltier Reporting from Abidjan, Ivory Coast More than 700 inmates were released from the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s authorities said on Saturday ...

Congolese authorities on Saturday began vaccination against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a global ...

Off the coast of South Africa, a “pygmy” sea creature latched onto the coral reef with its tail. Its “cryptic nature” and ...

South Africa took third place at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in the Ivory Coast when they edged the Democratic Republic of Congo 6-5 on penalties after a goalless draw at the Felix Houphouet ...

He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo's newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet ... Artists are drawing cartoons based ...

Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...