Before the region descended into violence in the 1990s, the hotel hosted the DRC’s former dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, as well as tourists eager to view the area’s abundant wildlife.

The two gorillas were orphaned by the actions of poachers, Shamavu explained, which is a persistent threat in the Virunga region. In May 2020, rumors circulated that Shamavu and the two gorillas ...

This includes at least 164 people kidnapped in 78 different incidents in Rutshuru, Nyiragongo, and Goma – the areas surrounding Virunga park. Kidnappings in the region first skyrocketed in 2015.

Nearly 700 rangers in Virunga park risk their lives to protect its wildlife in a region that has seen more than two decades of armed conflict and instability. ___ Petesch reported from Dakar, Senegal.

Since civil war and ethnic strife erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the early 1990s, poachers, refugees, soldiers and rebels have ravaged the 8,000-square kilometer Virunga National Park, ...

WWF is saddened to hear about the violent deaths of more people, who died while protecting one of the world’s most precious nature reserves. The conservation group expresses concern that oil ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, closed last month after the ambush of a tourist group that left a ranger dead, said on Monday that it would not reopen until the next year ...

However, as a result of the conflict in the Great Lakes Region which started in the 1990s, leading to large-scale movements of refugees and displaced people as well as the proliferation of armed ...