Congo landslide kills at least nine people, most of them children
At least nine people, including seven children from one family, died in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rain triggered a landslide that swept away several homes late on Friday, a ...
National Geographic news3 年
The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa Is the Congo River—For Those Who Dare to Take It
Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo ... who owns a small rubber and palm oil plantation in Binga, a village alongside a tributary known as the Mongala River.
National Catholic Reporter24 天
In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts
A 28-year-old Indigenous Baka man from Elango village ... small stature, the Baka are the first known inhabitants of Cameroon. They have lived as hunter-gatherers across the lush rainforests of ...
BBC5 年
Dan Snow's History of Congo
During the time of Mobutu's father, Gbadolite was just a small village ... independence in 1960, Congo had roads, railways and river-craft that were the envy of much of Africa.
来自MSN10 个月
‘Everything is destroyed’: Kinshasa in tumult after Congo River bursts its banks
The impoverished metropolis of some 15 million people sits on the Congo River -- the second largest in Africa after the Nile ... Kinshasa is crisscrossed with small rivers and waterways ...
Cambridge University Press3 年
Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South ...
In 1816, an expedition to Africa, commanded by Captain James Tuckey (1776–1816), set out on HMS Congo, accompanied by the storeship Dorothy. The aim was to discover more about African geography - of ...