Nine people have drowned and hundreds are potentially missing after a passenger boat sunk near the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, local officials said Monday. “A whaling barge overloaded with passengers and goods capsized at around 8 pm (1900 GMT) on Sunday on the Congo River 23 kilometres (14 miles) from Kinshasa,” Charles Mbutamuntu, … Continue reading Nine dead, many missing as boat capsizes near DR Congo capital