Kinshasa, often called "Kin la Belle," faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia ...

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals ...

Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the third largest city in Africa and home to over 10 million people. Some scholars predict that, by 2050, the city’s population ...

Emerging megacities like Kinshasa or Lima do not command important global niches. ... The slums of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, swell by as many as 400,000 new migrants each year.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The schools were closed, and most work was called off, meaning all the chaotic roads in this megacity led only to one place Wednesday: a domestic airport ...

On that score, it’s unfortunate that the two strongest segments are the shortest:15-minute “Symphony Kinshasa” and 13-minute “After the Mine,” both directed by Kiripi Katembo Siku.

Some 44 million people are eligible to vote, though many are expected to shun the election, including in Pakadjuma, a sprawling Kinshasa slum with no running water or sewage system.

If the preachers who spread their message on the banks of the Congo are to be believed, the face of evil is found in the despairing gaze of an abandoned child. With their pinched faces and thin ...

Kinshasa, often called “Kin la Belle”, faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia and clade Ib, are circulating in the city simultaneously. This is ...

Congo-Kinshasa: Mpox in the DRC - Residents of the Slum At the Centre of Kinshasa's Epidemic Have Little Chance of Avoiding This Major Health Crisis. 24 January 2025.

Kinshasa, often called “Kin la Belle”, faces a unique crisis in the fight against mpox. Both strains of the virus, clade Ia and clade Ib, are circulating in the city simultaneously. This is ...