Kikwit is also home to an airport and is connected to the capital Kinshasa by a new road and river transport.

Basankusu's distance from the capital Kinshasa and the recent upheaval due to the First and Second Congo Wars have made trade with the outside world difficult.

Lingala, spoken in the capital Kinshasa, is increasingly understood throughout the country, as the lingua franca of trade, spoken along the vast Congo river and its many tributaries.

Completed in 1983, it has a main span of 520 m, crossing the Congo River, carrying the main highway between the capital Kinshasa and the Atlantic coast.

January 8 - A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa, killing 300.

In the mid-1940s, he began playing guitar around the capital Kinshasa (then Leopoldville) with his Cuban style band Victoria Bakolo Miziki.

It reiterated the importance of the cantonment of non-police security forces in the capital Kinshasa.

In the first months of the new transitional government, MONUC could participate in maintaining security in the capital Kinshasa.

Born in Kisangani, Zaire, Kanyengele spent his youth in the capital Kinshasa and played football for a local amateur side.