On Wednesday, the river reached 6.20 meters (20.34 feet)above sea level, just shy of the 1961 record of 6.26 meters, he told Reuters, adding that the flooding had followed exceptionally high rains ...

The Congo Basin has a total area of about 1.5 million square miles, or 13% of the entire African landmass. This is also an area nearly equal to that of the entire European Union.