Kinshasa, April 3, 2026 (AFP) - Patching the wounds of Kinshasa's street children

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2026-04-03

In the back of a 4X4, a nurse cleaned a gash in a boy's arm, picked up from living rough on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of one of the world's poorest countries. Several thousand street children, known locally as "shegues", are estimated to live in the megacity of nearly 17 million, where NGOs are trying to give them a future. Many of the children and teenagers are pushed onto the streets because of dire poverty or because their parents......

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