Kinshasa, May 26th, 2025 (CPA) – Forty (40) road construction sites representing one hundred and seventy (170) kilometres of roads to be rebuilt are currently underway in the city of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to information received on Monday from the urban authority.
‘Forty (40) roadwork have been opened in the city of Kinshasa. This represents one hundred and seventy (170) kilometres of roads to be rebuilt, on which work is currently underway. Sixty-four (64) kilometres of these roads have already been delivered, although some are not yet open to traffic’, has declared Daniel Bumba, Governor of Kinshasa. ‘In eight (8) months, we have been able to rehabilitate 64 kilometres of deliverable roads with good quality drainage works.
The challenge ahead is enormous. Our target is to rehabilitate 500 kilometres of road a year’, he has added, before pointing out that it is the central government that is funding this work, for which fifty (50) engineers have been mobilised. According to the governor, the government programme for the province of Kinshasa provides for the rehabilitation of eight hundred (800) kilometres of roads, of which sixty-four have already been completed.
‘There are three hundred and forty (340) kilometres of roads to be rehabilitated. But the priority is the eight hundred (800)’, has said the urban authority. Among the roads already rehabilitated and ready for delivery, the governor has mentioned the avenues Wangata, TSF, Tombalbay, du Livre Mutombo Katshi, Pumbu, Ngongo Lutete, de l’ Hôpital as well as Tanganyika, Petit pont, Ouganda, OUA, Bongolo, Kauka, Kisangani, Luemba and Maître Croquet, in the north, centre and east of Kinshasa respectively.
On the subject of the traffic jams that are disrupting traffic in the Congolese capital, the urban authority has attributed the cause to the increase in the number of vehicles, which is not proportional to the number of roads. ‘There are too many vehicles for too few roads’, has said the head of the urban executive. ‘’There is a training course that has just started to provide the city with officers qualified to regulate road traffic. We have noticed a training problem with the police officers working in the field. We need to strengthen the capacity of officers working in this sector’, he has concluded.