An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Conservationists find 125,000 undiscovered western lowland gorillas in Africa, suggesting the species is safe
More than 50 children have been abducted in Haiti since the beginning of the year, adding to a trend of kidnappings in countries affected by violence, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report.
An ex-rebel leader who served as a vice president of Congo was arrested near Brussels, Belgium on Saturday on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to International Criminal Court.
The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.
Rescue workers were still searching for 20 people Wednesday, a day after a plane in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed into a busy market, killing at least 38 people and injuring another 115, officials said.
A missionary family from Minnesota is glad to be alive and together after surviving a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the father said Wednesday.
A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tearing the roofs off houses as it plowed through a densely populated marketplace near the runway.
The shooting deaths of four mountain gorillas -- three females and an alpha male silverback -- are prompting a United Nations agency to send a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
When software entrepreneur Carol Realini first visited Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, signs of brutal poverty were everywhere - sprawling slums, diphtheria, flickering power. But she saw one stark contrast: Almost everyone had a cellphone. And the phones were used like virtual money clips.
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Conservationists find 125,000 undiscovered western lowland gorillas in Africa, suggesting the species is safe
More than 50 children have been abducted in Haiti since the beginning of the year, adding to a trend of kidnappings in countries affected by violence, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report.
An ex-rebel leader who served as a vice president of Congo was arrested near Brussels, Belgium on Saturday on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to International Criminal Court.
The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.
Rescue workers were still searching for 20 people Wednesday, a day after a plane in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed into a busy market, killing at least 38 people and injuring another 115, officials said.
A missionary family from Minnesota is glad to be alive and together after surviving a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the father said Wednesday.
A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tearing the roofs off houses as it plowed through a densely populated marketplace near the runway.
The shooting deaths of four mountain gorillas -- three females and an alpha male silverback -- are prompting a United Nations agency to send a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
When software entrepreneur Carol Realini first visited Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, signs of brutal poverty were everywhere - sprawling slums, diphtheria, flickering power. But she saw one stark contrast: Almost everyone had a cellphone. And the phones were used like virtual money clips.
Rescuers raced to provide assistance Monday after an earthquake killed at least 39 people and injured 669 in central Africa, according to the Red Cross.
Rescuers raced to provide assistance Monday after an earthquake killed at least 39 people and injured 669 in central Africa, according to the Red Cross.
Foreign ministers formally gave the go-ahead for the Union's biggest-ever peacekeeping force outside Europe
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and armed groups in the country signed a deal Wednesday to end years of fighting in the country's east, according to Peter Kessler, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Jaccqueline Mathe, unemployed and 22, has just signed up for a bank account in Nellmapius, a black township near Pretoria. All she needed was a government ID and a mobile phone. Mathe hopes to save a quarter of the monthly $28.54 government grant she receives for her toddler, Khothasto, who is riding in a sling on her back.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki appeared to offer a way out of a stalemate with the opposition over disputed elections, announcing Saturday he was ready to form a government of national unity, a government spokesman said.
Aviation is becoming safer every year and 2007 saw the lowest number of crashes in 44 years, an independent watchdog group said.
Angelina Jolie, who was distanced from the espionage game as Matt Damon's wife in last year's The Good Shepherd, plans to jump feet first into the spy ring for an upcoming move.
For 17-year-old Madeleine, sunset brings fear. "People prowl around the camp at night," she says, sitting on her straw bed in the makeshift camp she is forced to call "home."
More than 200 children recruited to serve with militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been released by the fighters and are being returned to their families, an official for the U.N. children's agency said Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Congolese refugees fled camps Tuesday in the Democratic Republic of Congo as rebel troops attacked government forces in the area, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Maya Ajmera describes herself and actress Mira Sorvino as "kindred spirits."
A former Congolese militia leader suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court at The Hague Monday.
The civil war in Congo has cut off the rare silverback mountain gorilla from the conservationists who are trying to save it
At least 30 people were killed Thursday after a plane crashed in a poor, crowded suburb of Kinshasa right after takeoff, according to a Congolese Ministry of Information official.
As the Brazilian Championship approaches the halfway point, two clubs have pulled away from the pack. S�o Paulo has 34 points and Botafogo has 32, five ahead of its nearest challenger.
The number of refugees worldwide has gone up for the first time in five years, largely because of the exodus of more than 1 million Iraqis from their war-torn homeland in 2006, according to a U.N. report out Monday.
The number of refugees worldwide has gone up for the first time in five years, largely because of the exodus of more than 1 million Iraqis from their war-torn homeland in 2006, according to a U.N. report out Monday.
Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade and his wife Siohvaughn, welcomed a son, Zion, in Chicago on Tuesday, the basketball star announced on his Web site.
Rwandan rebels killed 17 people in overnight attacks on three villages in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission said Sunday.
The World Bank executive board issued this statement Thursday:
It's 8 a.m. in the morning and a group of tiny tots are heading towards a simple building on the outskirts of their village near Mombasa.
The world's second largest rainforest -- a haven of biodiversity and one of the planet's vital safeguards against runaway global warming -- is being devastated by illegal logging, environmentalists have warned.
The birth certificate from the Democratic Republic of Congo makes him out to be 40-years-old. But his NBA colleagues have long joked that the document must be forged because Dikembe Mutombo is years older than that. The punch line? That comes when Mutombo laughs along: Eyes squinting, cheeks bursting, his laughter fills the room like music in a jazz club, and he looks young enough to be a student at Georgetown all over again.
A grenade or mortar shell struck the Spanish Embassy during fighting between factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman told CNN.
THE BACKGROUND More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the ...
The background: More than 850 million people live in a state of hunger. Malnutrition kills more people annually than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
As a U.N.-backed conference on Africa's volatile Great Lakes region concludes on Friday, we offer a guide to the troubled area and its chances for lasting stability.
1. Brazil Despite opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin's expected strong showing in the Oct. 31 presidential runoff, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will prevail and maintain his ability to gov...
$12,360,000: The price paid Monday for "The Lesotho Promise," the 10th largest white diamond ever discovered and the largest diamond found this century, by the South African Diamond Corporation at an auction in Antwerp, Belgium.
"What's wrong with you?" a 14-year-old Congolese girl asked us in Swahili. "We were singing and dancing and you all just looked so sad. What's wrong with you?" We looked into the eyes of the welcoming group of pre-teen girls and flat-out lied, "We're just tired from our journey."
Serbia striker Nikola Zigic has joined Racing Santander on a four-year deal from Red Star Belgrade, the Primera Liga club said on Wednesday.
To fully understand the challenges facing the Democratic Republic of Congo, one must go back four and a half violent decades to the time of independence.
Rajesh Nambiar manages a consumer goods empire like the proverbial village elder under a palm tree. Ambling by the green foliage on his factory premises in Kinshasa, Congo's capital, Nambiar isn't ...
Democratic Republic of Congo captain Lomana LuaLua has signed a new three-year contract with English Premier League club Portsmouth.
I suppose I am most attuned to the plight and particular circumstances of refugees, because I am one myself. When the Islamic Revolution swept Iran, my homeland, back in 1979, I left the country and came West. I ended up at a university and later at CNN in the United States.
The U.S. State Department Sunday confirmed three Americans arrested over a week ago by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been released.
Armed riot police detained dozens of supporters of the Democratic Republic of Congo's leading political opposition party Friday when they broke up a protest over preparations for landmark polls, officials said.
Pascal Kasereka emerges from a forest carrying his weight in rocks slung over his back. "We are lucky to have these rocks in the earth," says the 16-year-old, who has spent two days walking from a ...
Brazilian defender Emerson Thome has left Wigan Athletic after failing to re-establish himself at the surprisingly successful Premier League club after injuring a cheekbone in November.
Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor said he intended leaving the African Nations Cup on Sunday after a row with coach Stephen Keshi.
Barcelona say that striker Samuel Eto'o will not hook up with the Cameroon squad for the African Nations Cup until after the La Liga game against Athletic Bilbao on January 15.
Almost half of the world's 300,000 child soldiers are girls. But despite efforts to raise awareness about their needs, little is being done, according to the international group Save the Children.
Zimbabwe has freed 62 men linked to a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea that also implicated the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The number of cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has continued to rise in northwestern Angola, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The number of cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has continued to rise in northwestern Angola, but efforts to educate residents about the disease are appearing to be having an effect, the World Health Organization said.
The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday.
Angola's death toll from the Marburg virus has climbed to 173 and four more countries have been placed on alert, as health officials struggle to contain the deadly virus, according to the World Health Organization Web site.
Three militia fighters have been arrested in connection with the murders of nine U.N. peacekeepers on patrol in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday.
At least nine U.N. peacekeepers have been killed after unidentified gunmen attacked two patrols in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the U.N.
U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo exchanged eggs, bread and a few dollars for sex with girls they were meant to protect, according to the U.N. watchdog agency.
U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo exchanged eggs, bread and a few dollars for sex with girls they were meant to protect, the United Nations watchdog agency has said.
The United Nations should more than double the size of its peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help stabilize the central African nation's transitional government, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
The president of Burundi is calling an attack on a refugee camp there "a shame" and a crime against innocents.
Armed attackers have killed up to 150 people in a raid on a refugee camp in Burundi, according to the United Nations.
A man accused by Zimbabwe of leading 70 suspected mercenaries has pleaded guilty to attempting to possess dangerous weapons, according to news reports.
The trial in Zimbabwe of 70 men accused of being mercenaries plotting to oust the government of Equatorial Guinea has been postponed for a day to give lawyers more time to prepare their case.
Thousands of Congolese troops have crossed from the western region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the east, a deployment Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Muligande says could portend an attack on his country.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa's third-largest country.
The president of Democratic Republic of Congo has appealed for calm after the capital city was rocked by gunfire and tank blasts in a failed coup attempt.
A coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo was thwarted after rebel soldiers briefly seized control of a government radio station in Kinshasa, Foreign Minister Antoine Ghonda told CNN.
The past decade has been devastating for eastern lowland gorillas. Their numbers are down 70 percent, and conservationists are spreading the alarm globally while acting locally.
In the multinational effort that may have averted a coup attempt in Equatorial Africa, South Africa alerted Zimbabwe that a planeload of 64 "suspected mercenaries" was to land in Harare, sources close to the investigation said Thursday.
Zimbabwe has accused U.S., British and Spanish spy agencies of helping suspected mercenaries detained in Harare to overthrow Equatorial Guinea's government.
Hosts Tunisia became the first side to qualify for the African Nations Cup quarterfinals with a 3-0 win on Wednesday over the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lomana Lua Lua hopes to put a smile back on people's faces in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo when his team launch their African Nations Cup bid.
Lakhdar Brahimi, previously U.N. special representative to Afghanistan, has been appointed special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations said Thursday.
The best guitar sounds from Zaire, township rhythms from South Africa, and different musical styles from dozens of other African countries continue to land on U.S. shores. Music imports from that c...
Jim Rogers usually gets what he wants. This boyish, blue-eyed Alabamian, 49, wanted to get rich, which he did in the 1970s managing the Quantum Fund with renowned investor George Soros. They stunne...
Away from the glare of TV cameras that follow South Africa's Nelson Mandela, most of the 47 nations that make up sub-Saharan Africa are quietly jettisoning socialism in favor of economic liberaliza...
Though Americans are living better than ever, the rest of the world is doing pretty well, too. The myopic Thomas Malthus has been proved wrong one more time. Populations do not necessarily starve t...
A California administrative law judge has ruled that a contractor must pay worker's compensation to a former employee with . . . a syndrome related to . . . AIDS. The judge ruled that the illness w...
THE CIVIL WAR that raged through Zaire's mining towns in the late 1970s was little more than a blip on the screen of recent history, but it triggered a response in the U.S. that is still showing up...
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