Page 3 - Virunga Park News Today

Plan to sell 30 eastern land blocks that extend into a famous gorilla reserve would also threaten wildlife and food security, report says

“A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27, an eyewitness and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded. The Islamic State group’s local affiliate has stepped up attacks targeting the Taliban and civili...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Suspected rebels have killed civilians and damaged a major hydropower plant under construction in Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the park operator said on Wednesday.

Tourism Minister Modero Nsimba accused Rwanda -- which this week is hosting an international conference on protected wildlife areas in Africa -- of hypocrisy

What everybody anticipated has happened: the UDPF, the Ugandan army, entered Congo to deal with the ADF-Nalu, a group of Muslim extremists that is terrorizing the region around Beni and that is held responsible for several bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

The ADF is responsible for the massacre of thousands of civilians, kidnappings and looting.

More than 200 Congolese and international NGOs have published an open letter calling for a government clampdown on “illegal activities” in protected areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the Oct. 18 letter addressed to President Felix Tshisekedi and copied to members of his Cabinet, 191 domestic and 43 foreign civil society organizations […]

In Democratic Republic of Congo, in the heart of Beni territory, plagued by extreme violence from Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, employees of the Virunga National Park are battling to keep a chocolate factory running.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with...