“…The Congo Basin region itself is megadiverse in plant species, including medicinal plants (Light et al, 2016). Screening studies for antimalarial medicinal plant species from Cameroon (Betti, 2002;Saotoing et al, 2011;Titanji et al, 2008;Kuete and Efferth, 2010;Betti et al, 2013a), Gabon (Betti et al, 2013b), the Central African Republic (Lakouéténé et al, 2009), Republic of Congo (Mbatchi et al, 2006;Nsonde-Ntandou et al, 2005) and Guinea Equatorial (Gomez Marín and Merino Cristóbal, 1990) have demonstrated the potential of traditional medicinal plants as source of antimalarial substances. Furthermore, the DRC, with about half of the African humid forests, ranks fifth in the world for the diversity of plant species (UNESCO, 2010;Masunda et al, 2019).…”