Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern ...

To cross from Congo to its sister city in Rwanda here takes just minutes by land. The countries share a painful history but have little in common these days.

Scientist Paul Helfrich has studied the T. bryo fish parasite for years and remains fascinated by its life cycle and ...

Bukavu and Goma, on the southern and northern edges of the sprawling Lake Kivu, both sit on the border with Rwanda, whose exports of minerals smuggled out of Congo have spiked in recent years ...

A gorilla has died after not waking up from general anaesthesia at Paignton Zoo. Kivu, a 22-year-old western lowland gorilla, died on Thursday following a health check. The zoo said Kivu's keepers ...

Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance which includes M23 rebels, said the rebels had entered the South Kivu provincial capital. The Rwandan-backed militants' progress comes despite ...

Actor’s environmental activism saw the tribute in his honour after researchers discovered the small brown amphibian in Ecuador A newly discovered species of frog has been named after Leonardo ...

M23 rebels and Rwandan troops took what was seen as the last military obstacle in the area of Kavumu, home to the airport that serves the South Kivu provincial capital of Bukavu. The M23 group is ...

The city, which borders Rwanda, is on the southern tip of Lake Kivu and is an important transit point for the local mineral trade. Earlier on Friday, rebel fighters had entered the airport some ...

In Goma, a city to the north that M23 captured late last month, thousands remain without access to clean water, forcing residents to collect supplies from Lake Kivu, where bodies from the fighting ...

The end of the ice fishing season in Ohio is not yet here as anglers continue to hit Indian Lake on inland waters and South Bass Island on Lake Erie.