CNN's Brian Todd looks at who Joseph Kony is, and what the U.S. and African militaries are doing to track him down.
President Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Central Africa to help hunt down the leaders Lord's Resistance Army.
The owner of a Philadelphia art store was arrested Tuesday and charged with smuggling and conspiracy for illegally importing and selling African elephant ivory, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Five people are arrested in Gabon for dealing in illegal animal parts.
A renowned South African whitewater guide and outdoorsman was apparently pulled from his kayak by a crocodile in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is presumed dead, expedition sponsor Eddie Bauer said.
The United Nations will carry out a second airlift of baby gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Gorillas may go extinct in much of central Africa by the mid-2020s -- victims of a meat trade, of logging and mining, and even the Ebola virus, a new report says.
A year ago, they were complete unknowns, living a peaceful existence far away from the glare of the international media. Not any more.
A pea-sized seahorse, the world's longest insect, a "ghost slug" and the world's smallest snake were among the top 10 species discovered in 2008, a committee of scientists said Friday.
Conservationists find 125,000 undiscovered western lowland gorillas in Africa, suggesting the species is safe
"What's wrong with you?" a 14-year-old Congolese girl asked us in Swahili. "We were singing and dancing and you all just looked so sad. What's wrong with you?" We looked into the eyes of the welcoming group of pre-teen girls and flat-out lied, "We're just tired from our journey."
Nobel peace prize winner Wangari Maathai rose to international fame for campaigns against government-backed forest clearances in Kenya in the late 1980s and 1990s.
The United Nations World Food Programme has added longitude and latitude to its hunger awareness campaign with the publication of an interactive map plotting the location of the world's hungriest people.
Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide remained for a fourth day Friday in a gilded cage in this dilapidated capital city, unable to communicate with the outside world, his spokesman said in a telephone interview from Paris.
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