Raging waters carried away cars and inundated houses as many residents awoke to find their neighborhoods transformed. Local authorities have not yet reported any casualties. Kinshasa, home to over 12 ...
Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one ...
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Kinshasa’s last baobab: how a tree designed for survival faces its biggest threat yet
In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope ...
Our reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. An mpox patient ...
Walking through the crowded streets of the Pakadjuma neighbourhood in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am struck by the vibrant atmosphere around me. Children play happily in ...
Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have expressed their “spiritual closeness and solidarity” with victims of the recent floods and landslides that struck the capital city of ...
KINSHASA, Congo — Major flooding in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa has killed at least 22 people and cut off access to over half of the city and the country’s main airport, authorities said Sunday.
Fighting and violence continue in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In early February, 3,000 people were killed in Goma - a city of 2 million - in just a few days. A rebel force backed by ...
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