Officials say the corridor will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, thereby providing more economic options so people are not pressured to join armed groups due to poverty.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "The eastern half of Lake Edward is ...

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

"The park includes: part of Lake Edward (Lake Rutangize), the Semliki River valley, parts of the Rwindi, Ishasha and Rutshuru valleys south of the lake, the Virunga area within former Zaïre, and part ...

Citations: Morjaria, Ameet, Charlotte Snyder. Business in the Heart of Darkness: SOCO's Oil Exploration in the Virunga National Park. 5-119-003 (KE1163).

Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning ...