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Aug 1, 2022 · Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo became the largest city in Africa in 2022, just beating out Lagos, Nigeria.
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Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's largest city and Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is located on the ...
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Jul 27, 2023 · A quick look at the DRC's largest city and capital: Kinshasa! New 60 second city premieres every Thursday right here! Congo airlines pic by Jp TSHIAMBI - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,...
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- A Sanctuary’s Birth
- The Bonobo Brain
- Conservation Through Community
- Conservation Through Education
- Conservation Through Rehabilitation
- Going Home
The founder of Lola ya Bonobo, Claudine Andre, arrived in Kinshasa from Belgium at a young age with her veterinarian father. As she recounts on theLola website: “My first school was the forest.” She spent her childhood surrounded by and committed to nature. As an adult in 1993, when a young bonobo arrived at the city zoo at which she volunteered, t...
A quick visit to the sanctuary reveals the bonobos’ extraordinary intelligence, an aptitude that has been witnessed many times by those dedicated to caring for the animals. “We realized they can understand three languages,” exclaims the resident veterinarian Raphaël Belais like a proud father. The animals, he says, respond to “French, English and L...
A short motorbike ride away from Lola is the community of Mamfufu. Here, residents weed and water their small gardens with no visible connection to the bonobos nor the sanctuary. These gardens are, however, an essential piece in the sanctuary’s community engagement strategy. “Conservation does not work if you are only thinking about the animals,” e...
One of the most influential and effective ways in which Lola has engaged with the community is through its educational programs; as many as 20,000 school children visit the sanctuary annually to learn about the bonobos. Susie Katwenda, Lola’s biologist and a researcher, has worked with the sanctuary for eleven years and is one of the notable person...
Visitors to the sanctuary are often reminded of the genetic similarities our two species share, especially when they see how newly arrived bonobo orphans relate to their human foster mothers, who care for the animals until they are ready for introduction to their fellow bonobos. Their morning rituals together are fascinating and fun to watch. The b...
It is late afternoon at the sanctuary. Insects buzz through the heavy humidity as the sun becomes less intense and the forest begins to darken. A troupe of bonobos has gathered near the river, awaiting the sugarcane treats about to be distributed by Jean Claude Nzumbe, one of Lola’s oldest and most experienced caretakers. Jean Claude’s connection t...
Jul 10, 2014 · According to the definition of a primate city as three times larger than its next largest counterpart, 31 of the 50 cities studied were deemed ‘primate cities’. Of these 31 cities, 11 are in Africa, 12 are in Asia, 4 are in Europe, 1 is in North America, and 3 are in South America.
Kinshasa (/ kɪnˈʃɑːsə /; French: [kinʃasa]; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until 30 June 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest-growing megacities.
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Kinshasa is also the primate city of the DRC with a population several times larger than the next-largest city, Lubumbashi. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known by its French acronym MONUSCO (formerly MONUC) has its headquarters in Kinshasa. In 2016, the UN placed more peacekeepers ...
