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Showing posts with label Boma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boma. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

■ CONGO (KINSHASA): Construction of new runway at new Boma International Airport nears completion.

DRCProgress on building the Democratic Republic of the Congo's fifth international airport, to be located in Lukandu, a village 12 km from the town of Boma, Bas-Congo, near the mouth of the river Congo, is advancing with the first phase of funding and construction nearing completion. So far, a 3'000m clay runway has been built and inaugurated by the governor of Bas-Congo, Jacques Mbadu Situ, who recently landed on the strip as a means of showing his faith in the project.