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Published on 22 April 2025

Floods in Kinshasa: An Avoidable Disaster, Management to Reconsider

At Our Land Without Oil, we affirm that these floods are not inevitable. They are the result of disorderly urbanization, failing governance, and political disregard for environmental realities. Roads without drainage, urban deforestation, plastic waste in rivers, illegal construction in flood-prone areas: this chaos is known, documented, and yet left unanswered.

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Floods in Kinshasa: An Avoidable Disaster, Management to Reconsider
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