On the southwestern flank of Virunga, a protected national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was once a thick rainforest. Today it looks like the surface of the moon, barren and smoking.

David Mapendano is a logistician for WWF in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. He supports the Virunga Environmental Program, or PEVi. He explains what motivated him to seek a career in conservation, ...

Filmmaker Petna Ndaliko still remembers sneaking into the movie theater as a boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in the wake of turbulence and civil war, the cinema in the city of Goma has ...

Goma City tour - at the famous sculpture of Tshukudu statue, a wooden cart that is a major source of transport for goods. (ayne Rose Gacheri, Standard )The last time I was in Goma, DRC, in September ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Some tourists were kidnapped and a convoy attacked in the Virunga National Park, the Democratic Republic of Congo's famed haven for gorillas and other endangered ...

The main power lines to the city of Goma, in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were cut off Monday due to an escalation of fighting between rebels and the DRC’s armed ...

Sandwiched between Lake Kivu in the south, the Rwandan border in the east, volcanoes and Virunga national park in the north, Goma is central to the Democratic Republic of Congo's natural riches and ...

GOMA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park has reopened after the deadly ambush of a tourist group led to its closure last year over security fears, the park's director said ...

UPDATE 05/11/2018: On May 11, three people, including two British tourists, in Virunga National Park were kidnapped when their convoy was ambushed in the Nyiragongo territory, north of Goma. Speaking ...

Last month Mai Mai militia attacked a Virunga park vehicle carrying tourists from the city of Goma, killing park ranger, Rachel Makissa Baraka. Immediately following the incident, Virunga National ...