Congo’s capital attempts clean-up ahead of Pope visit
21 January 2023 |
4:11 pm
Before dawn, crews from Kinshasa's sanitary police brigade armed with crowbars and aided by a bulldozer, set on demolishing makeshift stalls that crowd a busy intersection and a main artery of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital.
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