Troops from Zaire and Rwanda exchanged heavy weapon and mortar fire across a narrow river separating the countries, a Rwandan army spokesman said Tuesday. Monday night’s fighting across the 50 ...

This includes the Nile, Africa's longest river and one of the longest in the world. Further south lies the continent's second longest - the Congo River, formerly the Zaire River - which is also ...

Under moonlight at 3 o'clock in the morning, without a sound but frogs croaking in symphony along the banks of a mighty 2,900-mile river that coursed from the South Atlantic through the veins of ...

Deadly virus' largest known outbreak now underway in Africa. — -- Origin of the disease The first reported case of the deadly virus came in 1976 and it is named after the Ebola River in the ...

CYANGUGU, Rwanda — In the still of a rainy season afternoon, as storm clouds loom, the refugees appear, their clothes dirty and tattered, their faces tired and worn, a few possessions in bund… ...

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire ...

Stretching for 2,900 miles (4,700 km), it’s Africa’s second-longest river, after the Nile, and flows through seven countries: the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...