“When rangers contacted the individual there was an exchange of gunfire between the subject and law enforcement rangers,” the park said. “The subject is deceased.” The area around Canyon ...

Late one morning Kambale and two other armed rangers drove me to Vitshumbi, a village on the south bank of Lake Edward, inside the park’s boundaries. Conceptually, Vitshumbi is a fishery with ...

A park ranger killed by the kidnappers has been named ... reporting from the country's capital Kinshasa, said there were armed groups operating in the park and there had been kidnappings before ...

A week earlier, a park ranger died in an attack by armed men as he guarded the construction site of a hydroelectric plant. BBC Africa editor Will Ross said poachers were active in the park ...