Pygmies are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of Central Africa, and around 600,000 live in Congo. A Catholic cleric in the province, Monsignor Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, told The ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning.

The “Congo Pygmies” were subjected to public viewing, and when the public was not around, were studied and measured by scientists – racial anthropologists – who declared the “specimens ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo were losing control of the key city of Goma on Wednesday after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People protest in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, against the Rwanda ...

Of the 2,500 remaining specimens, the majority live in Taï National Park in Ivory Coast, the largest – and one of the last – primary forests in West Africa.

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...