The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast ...

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already ...

Peatlands, one of the planet’s most crucial carbon sinks, are facing a crisis of protection and preservation, a new global ...

Countries bordering the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought to shore up defences on Wednesday as violence spreads ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

Scores of people have fled since the fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, on Friday. It was barely defended by the Congolese armed forces . The fall of ...

(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights ...

The Rwandan-backed rebels' entry into Bukavu follows their capture of Goma, defying international calls for a ceasefire.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP ... Government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said Rwanda was violating DR Congo's territorial integrity through expansionist ambitions and human rights abuses.