The districts were further divided into territories. [23], Although selected by local structures according to custom, traditional leaders can only exercise their authority if they are officially recognized and invested by the government.

[64][65][66] Previously a significant number were civil war orphans. [31][17], The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known by its French acronym MONUSCO (formerly MONUC) makes its headquarters in Kinshasa. Gated communities and shopping malls, built with foreign capital and technical expertise, began to appear in 2006. [9] Kinshasa suffered greatly from Mobutu's excesses, mass corruption, nepotism and the civil war that led to his downfall. Several international airlines serve Ndjili Airport including Kenya Airways, South African Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Air France and Turkish Airlines.

[citation needed] Gombe is bounded on the north by the Congo River and in the south by the Boulevard du 30 Juin.

The official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, of which Kinshasa is the capital, is French (See: Kinshasa French vocabulary). For instance the town of Buta gained city status when it became a provincial capital in 2015, had its first mayor appointed in 2018, and by June 2019 its four communes were still not operational.[12]. The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed): (SVG file, nominally 1,054 × 702 pixels, file size: 29 KB).

The signatures were collected within two months by the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Of these, 3,600–4,600 escaped in a jailbreak in May 2017.[59][60]. Each new province was created from the territories of one or two districts, adding any enclosed cities, and if needed giving city status to the new capital. Thus much of the urban structure has developed without guidance from a master plan. This being the height of the Cold War, the U.S. and Belgium did not want to lose control of the strategic wealth of the Congo, in particular its uranium. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. So a province is divided into territories and cities; a territory into sectors, chiefdoms, and communes; a sector or chiefdom into groupings; and so on. [6], In order to pass a modified bill allocating seats for upcoming local elections, it was decided to suspend those articles that were contentious and to revert the affected communities to their 2006 administrative configurations. Ndako ya Biso provides support for street children, including overnight accommodation for girls. River transport also connects to dozens of ports upstream, such as Kisangani and Bangui. It includes the communes (municipalities) of Kisenso, Lemba, Limete, Matete and Ngaba. A quarter has divisions but these are not set down by organic law. [9] By 1923, the city was elevated to capital of the Belgian Congo, replacing the town of Boma in the Congo estuary. CC BY-SA 2.5 By fits and starts the number of towns that have been, or are in the process of being, upgraded to cities has also increased greatly. The city was colonized as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881. City plans of the 1920s–1950s featured a cordon sanitaire or buffer between the white and black neighborhoods, which included the central market as well as parks and gardens for Europeans. In 2016 the UN placed more peacekeepers on active duty in Kinshasa in response to the recent unrest against Kabila. [9] The town, nicknamed "Léo" or "Leopold", became a commercial centre and grew rapidly during the colonial period.

See Table 1 for details on all provinces. Nevertheless, it is still a major cultural and intellectual centre for Central Africa, with a flourishing community of musicians and artists. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The voter was also to have a say in more local affairs by voting in a councilperson to the local council which was then, except in a chiefdom, to go on to elect the local leader. The private channel RTGA is also based in Kinshasa. Lukunga is one of the four districts that make up the capital city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Both offer scheduled flights from Kinshasa to a limited number of cities inside DR Congo.[53].

[4] According to the government's 2014 statistical yearbook the Congo would go from 21 cities and 227 cités in 2008 to 99 cities and 289 territorial communes in the reorganization.

[38], Although home to only 13% of the DRC's population, Kinshasa accounts for 85% of the Congolese economy as measured by gross domestic product. There are the National Museum and the Kinshasa Fine Arts Academy. The city of Kinshasa is also one of the DRC's 26 provinces. Kinshasa is home to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo including: The Central Bank of the Congo has its headquarters on Boulevard Colonel Tshatshi, across the street from the Mausoleum of Laurent Kabila and the presidential palace. [57] By some accounts, crime in Kinshasa is not so rampant, due to relatively good relations among residents and perhaps to the severity with which even petty crime is punished.

Kinshasa is a municipality (commune) in the Lukunga district of the city of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

the US ambassador to the UN,[33] have accused the peacekeeping mission of supporting a corrupt government.