PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos was officially presented on Friday the original print of the Murillo Velarde 1734 Map of the Philippines, the “formidable piece of evidence” used as basis in the 2016 ...

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry ...

The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a pollution problem for an entire region.

Is a deadly past replaying for Congolese as M23 rebels march on Kinshasa amid presence of Rwandan and Ugandan troops?

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

With his furious docu-essay I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck caused a stir in 2016. The film about African-American writer James Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement not only put the Haitian-born Peck ...

New books from Molly Yeh, Hailee Catalano, Meera Sodha, Calvin Eng, and more will whet your appetite for a new season ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

BASANKUSU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People scrambled to load the wounded onto motorbikes Thursday morning after two explosions hit a meeting of ...

noting similar outbreaks in the past. An outbreak of unknown cause reported in Congo in December was ultimately identified as malaria.