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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Kinshasa, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 23 stories have been published about Kinshasa which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Kinshasa, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 23 stories have been published about Kinshasa which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Pope Francis · KinshasaLarge crowds turned out in the Democratic Republic of Congo's for Mass with Pope Francis. The pontiff is on a six-day trip to the continent.
Congo: Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Kinshasa
50% Right coverage: 10 sources
Pope Francis · KinshasaAn estimated 2 million Congolese are expected at the Mass at Kinshasa airport on February 1. Fighting in eastern Congo, which has more than 120 armed groups, has simmered for years but spiked in late 2021. In South Sudan, where Pope Francis will travel after Congo, civil war has prevented a visit since 2017.
Survivors of conflict to meet Pope Francis in Congo
74% Center coverage: 15 sources
Pope Francis · KinshasaPope Francis urges young people in Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a new future without the ethnic rivalry, corruption and distrust that have fuelled so many bloody conflicts in Africa. Francis spoke of forgiveness and reconciliation, themes that have dominated his visit to Congo. He led the stadium in an impromptu chant of "no to corruption" in French.
Shun ethnic rivalry and corruption, pope tells African youth
50% Center coverage: 18 sources
Pope Francis · KinshasaPope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo's people to forgive those who committed "inhuman violence" against them, celebrating a Mass for 1 million people and then hearing first hand of the atrocities some of them have endured: a teen-age girl "raped like an animal" for months; a young man who watched as his father was decapitated; a former sex slave who was forced into cannibalism.
Pope consoles Congolese victims: 'Your pain is my pain'
61% Center coverage: 13 sources
Pope Francis · Vatican CityPope Francis is opening a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has called a lingering “colonialist mentality” that still considers Africa ripe for exploitation.
Pope’s Africa trip spotlights conflict, and church’s future
50% Center coverage: 28 sources
Europe · GenevaA confidential UN report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency's policies because of what some officials described as a "loophole" in how WHO defines victims of such behaviour.
'Loophole' excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct
53% Center coverage: 17 sources
