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Smoke, looting as day of rage targets Kinshasa embassies
Vandalised embassies, looted supermarkets and piles of burning tyres marked chaotic demonstrations Tuesday in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa to denounce the "inaction" of the international community over ...
Congo-Kinshasa: Kinshasa's Traffic Cops Run an Extortion Scheme Generating Five Times More Revenue Than Fines
Analysis - Commuting in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, presents challenges for its 17 million residents. Massive traffic jams and unsafe driving cause chaos on the roads, ...
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Ugandan diplomats in hiding after Kinshasa embassy attack
Protesters ransacked the embassies of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and others in Kinshasa and attempted to set them on fire, ...
IgbereTV News11d
Protesters Set US Embassy On Fire In DR Congo's Kinshasa Protest
Vandalised embassies and piles of burning tyres marked chaotic demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ...
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Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
Later on Tuesday, the US Embassy in Kinshasa advised US citizens to leave the city. “Due to an increase in violence throughout the city of Kinshasa, the US Embassy in Kinshasa advises US ...
DR Congo’s Goma on the brink as fighters take airport
An armed group backed by Rwandan troops have taken control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma, dealing a major blow to Congolese forces and putting the eastern regional capital on ...
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Kinshasa’s traffic cops run an extortion scheme generating five times more revenue than fines
Reaching Gombe, Kinshasa’s central business district ... we set out to understand what institutional factors might be behind the city’s gridlock. In a recent paper, we analysed an illegal ...