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According to famed and prolific historians Will and Ariel Durant, over the past three and a half millennia there has been at least one war in 92 percent of those years.

Nobel Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege credits his egalitarian upbringing to his mother, who insisted that her sons chip in with household chores along with the daughters

Eco-guardians of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. https://www.youtube.com/embed/l__lPNbNqUc A project by Robert Carrubba and Cintia Garai/Wildlife Messengers. Photography by Robert Carrubba. As a nonprofit journalism organization, we depend on your...

Email Savanna elephants have returned en masse to Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s a development that has stunned park staff and signaled a turning point in Virunga’s quest for stability in a region beset by violence for decades. In August nearly 600 elephants crossed into Virunga from neighboring Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. More than six months later, they’re still there, suggesting they feel secure in their new home. “There has been no greater expression of Virunga coming back to life,” says park director Emmanuel de Merode. “I a...

Elephants return to conflict-ridden national park Haley Cohen Gilliland © Photograph by Brent Stirton/Getty Images Last summer, a herd of nearly 600 savanna elephants crossed from Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The migration was thrilling for Virunga’s embattled rangers; the elephant population in the park had dwindled to about 120 in recent years due to poaching and the threat of violence. Savanna elephants have returned en masse to Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I...