Kinshasa

Dubai-based flydubai's (www.flydubai.com) inaugural flight touched down today at N'djili Airport (Kinshasa International Airport – FIH). flydubai will operate daily flights to N'djili Airport with an enroute stop in Entebbe. flydubai is the first national carrier for the UAE to create direct air links to the Congolese ...

An intense week of exchange of experiences and capacity building linked to wildlife and biodiversity protection has taken place in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A major result of the regional initiative that lies under the framework of the UNWTO/Chimelong Programme on Wildlife and ...

African tourism administrations undersign the Declaration of Kinshasa on fostering tourism as a driver of biodiversity and environmental protection. An intense week of exchange of experiences and capacity building linked to wildlife and biodiversity protection has taken place in Kinshasa, the Democratic ...

After many months of upheaval, the Democratic Republic of Congo is set for yet another year of political struggle and internal conflict. Current President Joseph Kabila remains the main cause of the unrest. He reached the end of his final term in December 2016 yet refuses to step down. His government ...

The UN mission in the DRC, known as MONUSCO, should increase its human rights monitoring. Along with Kinshasa-based diplomats and the envoys that frequently visit, it should continue to denounce any repression of opposition and civil society groups. Those organisations likely to observe the vote ...

UDPS, the Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition party, on Saturday chose the son of its founder as its leader. Felix Tshisekedi, the son of former premier Etienne Tshisekedi, will be the party's candidate for the coming presidential poll.AFP ...

KINSHASA – Around 230,000 people have been driven from their homes in Democratic Republic of Congo, the government estimated Friday, a vastly different figure from the reports of humanitarian groups in the conflict-torn country. Kinshasa put the figure at "231,241 internally displaced people" ...

"We are the party of hope," Vital Kamerhe, leader of Union for the Congolese Nation told supporters at a Kinshasa rally. But he told VOA afterwards, that hope doesn't extend to faith that the poll will be fair.He noted the electoral commission's Korean-made electronic voting machines are plagued with ...

Stylianides, the EU commissioner, was touring Congo's hard-hit North Kivu province on Sunday, and was due to travel to the capital, Kinshasa, in an attempt to convince the foreign and humanitarian affairs ministers to reverse the decision. "We will try to persuade them," he said, "that this is not good for ...

Fourteen-month-old Georgette is one of the smallest victims of a massive, complicated crisis that has for two years enveloped a region the size of Germany in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her tiny limbs shake as her mother hands her to nurses at a roadside clinic in the town of Kananga. She is ...

In December, violence broke out in Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Militias launched deadly attacks on villages, killing scores of civilians, torching thousands of homes, and displacing more than 100,000 people, including nearly 60,000 refugees who fled to Uganda.

Kinshasa — GOVERNMENT forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have killed at least 47 people, including women and children, during protests against President Joseph Kabila this year. There are indications security services attempted to cover up the violations by removing bodies of victims ...

Pierre Sass moved to Kinshasa in the 1990s. Like thousands of young men, he came looking for work, rented an overcrowded room from a “brother” on the edge of the city and, four years later, bought his own plot of land. Today, the edge of the city is 3 miles (five kilometres) away and he has built his own ...

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is home to 10 million people. With an estimated 400 markets and over 1 million traders, markets are an important supplier of goods and source of livelihood. They are also an important source of revenue for the state. Our ongoing ...

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is home to 10 million people. With an estimated 400 markets and over one million traders, markets are an important supplier of goods and source of livelihood. They are also an important source of revenue for the state. Our ongoing ...

Kinshasa — MILITANTS have ambushed and robbed humanitarian agencies as well as civilians in the restive eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The robberies are the latest in a series of violations by the rebel groups in the Shabunda territory of the South Kivu province.

Since the end of November 2017, Kinshasa province has been facing an outbreak of cholera. Since that time, 1065 cases including 43 deaths (case fatality rate = 4%) have been reported from 32 out of 35 health zones in Kinshasa province. DRC map Democratic Republic of the Congo/CIA. In January ...

From 25 November 2017 through 23 February 2018, 1065 cases including 43 deaths (case fatality rate = 4%) have been reported from 32 out of 35 health zones in Kinshasa province. From 25 November 2017 through 15 February 2018, 177 stool specimens were collected for testing at the Institut National ...

Patience may be running somewhat thin over the political impasse that kept Kinshasa's politics from taking any steps forward of any description in recent years.” Shepherd was referring to new South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Botswana, Shepherd says, also played a key role in mediating the end ...

The flights from Kinshasa to Johannesburg will run three times a week, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, on the two-year-old airline which was launched in October 2016. The new DRC-South Africa service represents Congo Airway's first scheduled flight to South Africa, affording an opportunity to ...

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have used live bullets to disperse demonstrations, killing at least two protesters. The protests against President Joseph Kabila in the capital Kinshasa were organised by Catholic clergy. Fifteen people, three of whom are thought to be members of the ...

"Maki'La" is an impressive film debut by Macherie Ekwa Bahango. It depicts the rough life of street children in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Maki'La" premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. "I have always loved the movies. 'Titanic' was a very important film for me," says Macherie ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo faces a worsening humanitarian, human rights, and security crisis. The consequences have been devastating for the Congolese people, with some 4.5 million people displaced from their homes - more than in any other country in Africa - and 2 million children at risk of ...

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa has given his backing to a conference of donors meeting in Geneva on April 13 to discuss aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite a boycott by the Congolese government. “We can't refuse help when we have empty hands,” said Cardinal ...

Kyangwali — Around 8pm one January night, the bullets started flying through the village of Blukwa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri Province. It was just one incident in a wave of violence that has flared up in the region in recent months, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.

The DREF operation initially targeted 9 communes of Kinshasa affected by flooding and cholera, namely Galiema, Bandalungwa, Selembao, Masina, Limete, Kalamu, Bumbu, Kimbaseke and Ndjili. During the first two-months of the implementation, 14 new cases of cholera were notified in 7 new communes ...