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DRC: When it rains in Kinshasa

Written byJennifer Brea
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Posted 21 February 2009 16 years ago

Cedric Kalonji describes Kinshasa after a heavy rain [FR].  The roads turn into lakes, but “high up in their 4x4s, the authorities are untouched by the problem, the result being that there is almost no support for making storm sewers or gutters.”

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