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 ...
Long criticised as overcrowded and filthy, the city’s Zando marketplace has had an elegant and sustainable redesign ...
Kinshasa is Africa’s largest megacity, sitting atop immense natural wealth while millions struggle without basic services. This video explores how history, corruption, and foreign influence collide ...
On 8 January 1996, a Russian-built Antonov aircraft crashed into a market in Kinshasha city centre, killing at least 237 people in one of the worst tragedies in African aviation history. Thirty years ...
Defence ministers from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) are expected to meet in Zambia on Saturday, January 10, to discuss security issues in eastern DR Congo. Items on ...
Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the ...
Kinshasa has handed Washington a ‘wish list’ of mining sites ready for American capital. While the potential is vast, many of ...
The AFC/M23 rebel movement has said the DR Congo government has shut down all telecommunications networks in Uvira and surrounding areas in a bid to hide abuses committed by the army and its ...