The world has some truly remarkable rivers, from the Amazon in South America to the Nile in Africa. While the Nile is the longest and probably the most famous river in Africa, it is certainly ...

Africa’s second-longest river is by some distance its deepest, with a depth of up to 220 metres. The Congo River runs through the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Given the 1.5 million-square-mile river basin’s immense hydroelectric and agricultural potential, all of Africa could be beholden to it, and thus to its mother country. Instead the river remains ...