A mother watched in despair as an excavator demolished her Kinshasa home, part of a campaign to clamp down on unauthorised ...

Today, we're going to finish with Rwanda," shouted one demonstrator to applause in front of the building that houses the Rwandan embassy in Kinshasa. Thick smoke billowed nearby from tyres set on ...

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 ...

On April 5-6, the riverbanks burst, submerging major roads and buildings. The findings highlight the precarious situation of Kinshasa residents, now at about 18 million, who mostly live in dense ...