Loeries

#Loeries2025 Night 1 | All the winners

VML Birdwatching at The Loeries | Episode 2: Katherine Madley on the state of retail

Danette Breitenbach

VML Birdwatching at The Loeries | Episode 1: Insights from the jury presidents

Danette Breitenbach

Leaders talk love, AI and authenticity

Karabo Ledwaba

#Loeries2025 and City of Cape Town drive creative industry

Danette Breitenbach

More...

IMC Confrerence

#NedbankIMC2025 | Dr Gillian Hammah's 7 steps to integrating AI in your business

Karabo Ledwaba

Brands are showing up, consumers expect them to

Danette Breitenbach

Build for the long-term, responsibly

Danette Breitenbach

More...

Subscribe & Follow

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Nicole Adriaans: The future workplace

Advertise your job vacancies

World Bank signs $500m infrastructure project for Congo's capital

KINSHASA, DRC - The World Bank on Wednesday, 12 May, signed a $500m infrastructure project with Democratic Republic of Congo to improve roads, mitigate flood risks, fight erosion and develop public spaces across the capital Kinshasa.

By Hereward Holland and Fiston Mahamba

13 May 2021

A Congolese man carries his shoes as he wades through floodwaters along a street after the Congo River burst its banks due to heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Reuters/Kenny Katombe

Kinshasa is the largest French-speaking city in the world with a population of just over 17 million.

Funding for the "Kin Elenda" project will include a credit and grant of $250m each, the World Bank said.

"Kin Elenda will help change the daily lives of the people of Kinshasa through the investments it will make throughout the city," said Jean-Christophe Carret, the World Bank's country director.

Source: Reuters

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day.

Go to: https://www.reuters.com/