58 bodies were retrieved from the Mpoko River in the capital Bangui after a vessel taking people to a funeral capsised. Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera signed the ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river with a basin that spans nine countries in West-Central Africa. This extensive body of water provides food, water, medicine and transport to about 75 million ...

Given the 1.5 million-square-mile river basin’s immense hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden to it, and thus to its mother country. Instead the river remains ...

The Congo River in Central Africa is one of the world's great rivers, carrying 1.25 million cubic feet of water—more than 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools—into the Atlantic Ocean every second.

But it is still not as high as in some recent years. A NASA satellite map shows Central Africa as a thick fiery splotch, a rash even denser than the red mass over the Amazon. But experts cautioned ...

The Congo River exhibition shows over 170 pieces – masks, sculptures, reliquaries – selected by the curator, Brother François Neyt, to illustrate the unity of this immense region which covers ...