Ngaliema

In a classroom of the Commercial Technical Institute in Kinshasa's Ngaliema district, dozens of people filled out voter registration forms last week, the first area of the country to do so.

The district of Ngaliema is the other side of the capital from the stadium and the church of St Alphonse.

The local member of parliament in Ngaliema is the firebrand opposition leader Franck Diongo, who was arrested during the protests after a confused fracas with some Republican Guards.

Ngaliema is on a hill, near the base of the feared Republican Guard, Kabila’s praetorians.

As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy.