Floods have wreaked chaos in Kinshasa - the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo - with water pouring into homes and residents navigating submerged roads via canoe. The overflowing River ...
Measurements taken in Kinshasa indicated that the river had risen 5.94 metres (19. ... only Tintin's famous quiff of yellow hair was poking above the water line.
A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in northeastern Congo.
In Kinshasa, flooding is common but this year the River Congo has risen just shy of 6.26 metres, the level reached during record flooding in 1961. Further upstream, in the city of Kisangani ...