At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its ...

Visiting the largest zoo in the world means you're to explore a vast space where rare and endangered animals are safely ...

M23's rapid advance this year has left thousands of civilians dead, displaced hundreds of thousands more and given the rebels control over much of Congo's eastern borderlands, an area rich in tin ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a third major town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding their stranglehold over the country’s mineral-rich east. “The city of Walikale, the ...

Virunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and more than 1,000 hippos [Getty Images] ...