Sometimes stopping for the night isn’t an option. Travelers in a motorized wooden pirogue cook dinner by moonlight as they cruise down the Congo River toward morning.

Boats carrying passengers on the Congo River are often poorly maintained and crowded At least 60 people have drowned after a boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.

About 50 people have died after a boat capsized on a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The vice-governor of Tshuapa province in the north of the country said the cause of ...