For the Congo Basin, ... Gabon is something of an anomaly in Central Africa. ... Map courtesy of Southern African Development Community’s 2021 report on the state of food and nutrition security ...

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally ...

The Congo Basin contains the world’s second-largest rainforest, spanning Central Africa. This region is home to 80 million people who depend on the Congo Basin for everything from food to ...

This is the second article in our four-part series “The Congo Basin peatlands.” Read Part One, Part Three and Part Four.. The announcement came in mid-2019: A pool of oil lay deep beneath a ...

Despite the evidence of their critical ecological importance, we stood by while the Congo Basin, the heart of Africa, the Earth’s second great rainforest, was decimated by human activity ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river with a basin that spans nine countries in West-Central Africa. This extensive body of water provides food, water, medicine and transport to about 75 million ...

Countries in Central Africa’s Congo Basin — led by Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, and Equatorial Guinea — are being watched closely for the possibility of future political upheaval.

A woman leads environmental activists in a climate protest in Kinshasa, Congo, in November 2019. As they mark the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrate the Congo Basin as the second ...

“Africa is underrepresented in such climate gas measurements, and the Congo Basin is particularly poorly researched,” says Matti Barthel, a research associate with ETH Zurich and the study’s ...

The Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent ...

In 1999, we organized the Yaoundé Summit, a high level summit of heads of state from six Congo Basin countries. This led to the Yaoundé Declaration, where countries promised to cooperate to conserve ...

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally recognised for its astounding biodiversity.Beneath the surface of this ...