Aljazeera
Arterial roads in the centre of Kinshasa were submerged. Images shared on social media showed a landslide in the hilly Mont-Ngafula district, cutting off Highway 1, which is a key supply route linking the capital with the Atlantic Ocean port of Matadi.
Other images showed entire neighbourhoods flooded with muddy water and roads giving way to sinkholes.
“We’ve never seen a flood here on this scale,” Blanchard Mvubu, who lives in Mont-Ngafula, told an AFP reporter at the scene.
“I was asleep, and I could feel water in the house … it’s a disaster. We’ve lost all our possessions in the house, nothing could be saved.”
Close by, a young man was asking for 500 Congolese francs ($0.24) from passers-by to carry them on his back across the submerged street.
Another man, who identified himself as a teacher, was walking barefoot in the water, holding a pair of shoes in one hand and a plastic bag with documents in the other.
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