Congo Basin, Africa

The Republic of Congo’s government has launched a nationwide weeklong campaign of action aimed at tackling the country’s high rates of infant,...

Free anti-malaria medicine will soon become a reality for children younger than five and pregnant mothers after the launch of the first phase of...

Louya, a 16-year-old boy begging in the Fonde market of Pointe-Noire, Congo's southern port city, said he was an orphan who had lived on the streets...

Sixteen-year-old Mayi doesn’t remember exactly when she was taken from the Togolese capital Lome to Congo’s second city Pointe-Noire by her...

The Republic of Congo plans to set aside part of its arable land for biofuel production, even as a debate rages over the part played by biofuels in...

Security and humanitarian conditions in the Pool region of the Republic of Congo have improved significantly in recent months despite a political...

The Republic of Congo will soon  be  much better placed to fight outbreaks of Ebola thanks to mobile laboratories that can detect the deadly virus...

Faced with the still pressing marginalisation of the indigenous Baka people, NGOs in Congo are implementing projects to improve living conditions in...

At least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating...

The High Court in southwestern Congo has indicted a member of an influential family on charges that he was responsible for the forced disappearance...