Kinshasa's 2025 population is estimated at 17,778,500. Back in 1950, it was 201,905. In the past year alone, the city's population has grown by 746,200, a 4.38% annual change. At least 2% of the ...

Kinshasa officials had announced the start of operations in the campaign, originally unveiled in November. The excavator moved on to an apartment block built illegally along the river. Its ...

The study attributes the April floods to a domino effect of “unusually heavy rains” in March that raised levels of the N’Djili River and its tributaries running through Kinshasa. On April 5 ...

Heavy flooding following torrential rains in eastern Congo has washed away several villages along the shores of Lake Tanganyika in eastern Congo, leaving at least 62 dead and 50 missing.

A mother watched in despair as an excavator demolished her Kinshasa home, part of a campaign to clamp down on unauthorised buildings after deadly floods. Flash flooding in the overcrowded megalopolis, ...

A mother watched in despair as an excavator demolished her Kinshasa home ... which sits on the banks of the mighty Congo River, killed dozens of people early last month.