For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

Home to one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, the Congo Basin casts a sprawling natural tapestry across Central Africa. It is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, teeming with a ...

The Republic of Congo’s minister of mines has issued ... This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin ...

A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers what is now the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin and Sahara desert. “When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the ...

A 51-year-old man from Gujarat reportedly succumbed to death from the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) on Tuesday. Doctors confirm that this is the first death reported from this infection ...

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Remains of the very first dinosaurs on Earth may be buried deep beneath the Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest ... the Sahara desert and the Congo basin. These dinosaurs would have been much ...

M23 rebels stand with theirs weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo in this file photo ... important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.