Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third largest city in Africa and home to over 10 million people. Some scholars predict that, by 2050, the city’s population could ...

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 The older inhabitants of Kinshasa can remember ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn't just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly ...

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has found itself in the middle of a construction boom over the past decade. The economy has also been given a jolt by the entrepreneurial ...

There's an uneasy feeling when you land at the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kinshasa airport. Secret police dressed in black uniforms with AK47 assault rifles slung over their shoulders watch you as ...

We'll look at the latest developments in the instability and violence in a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed fighters are battling Congolese troops. Fighting and violence ...

19:57, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 Updated: 19:58, Sat, Feb 8, 2025 A vast central African metropolis is thought to be the most francophone city globally, with more people speaking French there than Paris.

KINSHASA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Before dawn, sanitary police armed with crowbars and a bulldozer set about demolishing makeshift trader stalls crowding downtown streets in the capital of Democratic ...

The Anti-Fraud Brigade of Kinshasa City in the DR Congo have threatened to seize a commercial house, Uganda House, owned by the Uganda government in Kinshasa over non-payment of property tax arrears ...