(19 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo – 19 April 2025
1.Women at vegetable market
2. Wide of traffic
3. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Jonathan Bawolo, Kinshasa resident:
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"Our country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a good country in the heart of the African continent. We are a country that is so rich that we’re not selfish, and we don’t harass foreigners in the streets to ask for their identity papers.”
4. People talking next to motorbikes
5. Various of Casimir Mutombo, motorbike repairman, fixing motorbike
6. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Casimir Mutombo, motorbike repairman:
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"It’s a prosperous country (Congo) unlike any of its neighbors. We find everything here. We have beautiful wildlife to admire, like elephants, okapis and lions. We lack nothing.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo – 18 April 2025
7. Democratic Republic of the Congo flag
8. Memorial to Congolese soldiers
9. Wide of street
10. People on the banks of the Congo River
STORYLINE:
Residents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa reacted Saturday to comments made by US President Donald Trump about foreign migrants last week.
During a meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Trump spoke on curbing migration and the conditions of the US borders, telling his Italian counterpart "many, many people come from the Congo. I don’t know what that is, but they came from the Congo and all over the world they came in."
One Kinshasa resident, Jonathan Bawolo responded to Trump’s statement by saying, "we are a country that is so rich that we’re not selfish, and we don’t harass foreigners in the streets to ask for their identity papers".
It was not the first time the American president has made such statements about an African country.
In March, President Trump declared that no one had ever heard of Lesotho during a speech criticising some U.S. foreign aid contracts as a waste of money.
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