But in eastern Congo several rebel commanders disobey orders from Kinshasa, Congo's capital, and still look to their former sponsors in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.
With almost no stars now recording in Kinshasa, Congo's music is becoming devoid of innovation.
Bosingwa was born in Kinshasa, Congo, but moved to Portugal with his parents when he was a child.
The students then pile on and force the driver to take them, for free, to their university, some 15km (nine miles) away on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Congo's squalid capital.
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Until recently, world-class pickers in places like Kinshasa, Congo, and Bamako, Mali, not to mention rural townships in South Africa or beach towns in Madagascar, also knew little about one another.
General Nkunda has threatened to march across Congo to Kinshasa to overthrow Mr Kabila if he refuses to start formal talks with the rebels.
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Egypt, African champions a record six times but World Cup qualifiers only once, face a difficult Group 12 assignment against the DR Congo in Kinshasa.
The rest it sucks into its system through contracts made with other diamond producers, and by dispatching its buyers, whose clipped British accents and pressed cotton shirts mark them out as the sort who might otherwise be employed by Her Majesty's secret service, to vacuum up diamonds that seep onto the market in such places as Angola and Congo-Kinshasa.
It is feared that this looting could spread across the Zaire river to Brazzaville, in Congo, where Kinshasa's rich have set themselves up.
Relative to local incomes, Juba is the second most expensive city in the world in which to start a business, after Congo's Kinshasa.
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On 25 November, the BBC World Service is broadcasting a special one-hour debate in front of a Kinshasa audience: Is DR Congo a failed state?
Among the likely new entrants are Lima (Peru) , Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Tianjin (China).
The BBC's Maud Jullien reports from DR Congo's capital Kinshasa that the government's decision is likely to be welcomed by most people, as he remains an extremely popular figure.
Instead of quickly marching to power, the rebels were beaten when they tried to take Congo's capital, Kinshasa.
Ki-moon arrived in Libreville, Gabon, late on Wednesday, 30 June, from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Africa also boasts many huge, rapidly growing cities, but it's hard to identify many of these places--like Lagos, Nigeria, Luanda, Angola or Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo--as bright prospects.
Forces loyal to Congo's government in Kinshasa at first made progress against General Ntaganda's lot, but then the rebels suddenly found the resources to fight back, forcing a military stalemate and creating a humanitarian crisis.
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After launching a fresh rebellion in the east last year, the Rwandans flew thousands of troops and rebels across Congo to attack the capital, Kinshasa.
The statement said the fighting violated the letter and spirit of the Pretoria power-sharing deal signed on 17 December by the Kinshasa government, the main rebel groups and DR Congo's political opposition.
It's the name of a CD series that showcases bands in Kinshasa, the capital of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Western countries have urged their nationals to leave Congo, and closed or reduced their embassies in Kinshasa.
Goalkeeper Lousseni Issa made several superb saves as AS FAN added Motema Pembe of the DR Congo to their list of victims with a goalless Kinshasa draw taking them through 1-0 on aggregate.
And the government, which is sitting way over in Kinshasa - thousands of kilometers away - does not have the capacity to govern the eastern Congo.
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He tellingly refused to greet Mr Ban on his arrival in Kinshasa, the capital, but met him instead in the provincial city of Kisangani, in Congo's east, where the president is more popular.
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