When Christine Lain, the director of Upemba National Park, heard gunfire coming from the outer boundary of the park’s headquarters complex a little before 6 in the morning of March 3, her first thought was that it was a part of a drill. Upemba, a sprawling 11,730-square-kilometer (4,530-square-mile) network of grasslands and forests in the […]

Survivors describe how rangers and staff were targeted by an armed group during a raid on DRC’s national park earlier this month

When Christine Lain, the director of Upemba National Park, heard gunfire coming from the outer boundary of the park’s headquarters complex a little before 6 in the morning of…