Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

including 127 sentenced to death,” explained Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba during a press briefing January 6. These death sentences come after the ...

Mt Kilimanjaro, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mt Kenya are Africa’s three highest points. Here’s how to stand atop the world’s wildest land.

As Heads of States arrive in Dar es Salaam today for a joint Summit of the EAC and SADC, close to a million Congolese are on ...

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives ...

End Congo clash for Africa to move ahead The recent killings of more than 700 people in the Goma region of Eastern Congo are sad memories of the history of wars and instability that continue to rock ...

In Brazil, USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity, which focuses on ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Ayrey uses the example of a conservation project on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Ayrey says to carefully examine the situation on ... reducing REDD+ program claiming to protect forests in the ...

Interview - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement ...