JUNIOR D.KANNAH, AFP | A woman street vendor covers her make-shift stall with a tarp as rains flood the streets in a neighborhood of Kinshasa, back in April 19, 2012

Floods triggered by heavy rains and a river bursting its banks have killed at least 50 people and left thousands homeless in the southwest Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial governor told AFP on Thursday. Floods in Kinshasa in December 2015 left more than 30 people dead and 20,000 families homeless, most of them in the capital’s slums, where residents were left to battle with their bare hands through noxious mud, slime and fecal matter.
At least 50 people drown and thousands are left homeless due to flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.