AFRICA'S MEGACITY: Kinshasa, DRC (CONGO)
Kinshasa is the largest city in Africa and the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Congo a river journey
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Inside the murky business of cobalt mining in DR Congo
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DR Congo worker abuse
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DRCs corruption score
90-page Corruption report:
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History of the Congo river
King Baudouin declares Congo independent
Patrice Lumumba
How Chinese money is changing housing in Africa
What can $10 get in Congo
Kinshasa is drawing in waste
Seek change through rap music
Conflict minerals in the DRC
Wikipedia: Kinshasa
History guild: The Congo war
China gifting DRC new parliament building
Bush meets Kabila
China Cash Flowed to Former President’s Cronies
Kinshasa in 4k
The extraordinary foods and people of DR Congo
Innoss’B Fr Diamond Platnumz
Additional drone shots
Chinese entrepreneurs in DR Congo
Congo’s highway No. 1
Report slams Congo’s $6 billion China mining deal
Nyiragongo Volcano
Conflict and Coltan in Eastern Congo
Kinshasa slow motion
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Kinshasa
0:52 Geography and natural resources
1:56 The colonialists arrive
2:48 An independent (corrupt) DRC
3:48 Cobalt mining capital of the world
4:30 China’s plunder
6:51 Kinshasa’s poor infrastructure and services
7:39 Rich (few) vs Poor (many)
8:38 Bike merchant “traffickers”
9:52 A wild (slow) train ride
10:39 Looking ahead
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