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tensions in Kinshasa after a student was killed

The students have been trying to demonstrate since Monday morning after the murder on Friday of one of their comrades by a police officer. Two of the police officers involved were arrested, the third, the shooter, is on the run. But that was not enough to calm the students' anger. There are clashes around the University of Kinshasa.…

a student killed by a police officer in Kinshasa, a

A student was shot to death on Saturday, July 24 in Kinshasa by a police officer after a check went wrong. On Saturday afternoon, in the Liberation District of Selembao commune, a group of students film as part of a practical work when a police officer approaches them for the first time to ask them for bribes, an eyewitness…

Kinshasa wants to reassure that the game is being held

This is the first major event organized by the DRC. The Francophonie Summit also had the same concern that the DRC would not be able to organize the Francophonie Summit. According to the minutes, the reports were apparently one of the largest summits since the creation of the Francophonie summits. Ivory Coast also has the same configuration as us. They took a year to build the village of La Francophonie and they got there. There is so far no question of suspension or cancellation of any kind.…

the widow of Floribert Chebeya leaves Kinshasa without

After a two-week stay in Kinshasa, Annie Chebeya left the capital of Congo on Friday, July 9th. The widow of the former executive director of the Voice of the Voiceless for Human Rights, murdered on June 1, 2010, had returned to the country after eleven years in exile in Canada. During her stay in Kinshaha, Annie Chebeya…

in Kinshasa, Laurent Gbagbo finds his former

Laurent Gbagbo continues his stay in Kinshasa. The former Ivorian president met on Tuesday, July 6, in Kinshasa with his former comrades and prisoners from the International Criminal Court (ICC). A total of six Congolese, including former warlords, were invited to this reunion. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiLaurent…

Laurent Gbagbo visits Kinshasa by invitation

The first voyage outside the Ivorian borders of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo returned to Côte d'Ivoire on June 17, after ten years at the ICC. He arrived in Kinshasa on Friday, July 2, early in the evening. A discreet journey: no picture of his arrival has been leaked on social networks. Gbagbo's stay in the Democratic Republic of Congo responds to Jean-Pierre Bemba's invitation.…

Fulu Miziki, a Kinshasa collective that “makes music

Homemade instruments from recycled materials, no electronics, but a unique track: such is the recipe from Kinois of Fulu Miziki ("music from the bins" in Lingala). Meeting in Toulouse at the Rio Loco festival with an interdisciplinary and crazy collective, determined to conquer the world.

In Kinshasa, companies hard hit

The new restrictions linked to Covid-19 are a blow to companies in the capital Kinshasa. Bars, nightclubs and terraces are forced to close by the authorities to deal with the "third wave" of the pandemic, more virulent than the first two. as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal MulegwaIt performs new measures against Covid-19,…

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