{"id":3618,"date":"2019-04-23T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:36:39","slug":"37-dead-in-another-boat-sinking-in-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/04\/23\/37-dead-in-another-boat-sinking-in-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"37 dead in another boat sinking in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KINSHASA,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered after another boat sinking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Tuesday, a week after a vessel capsized with nearly 130 people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixteen survivors were found near the spot where the boat sunk on a river in the country&#8217;s east on April 9, acting governor Papy Omeonga Tchopa of Maniema province told&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>&nbsp;on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We found and buried 37 bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the motorised boat capsized near the village of Katalama, 120 kilometers (74 miles) from the provincial capital Kindu on the Kindu-Kibombo-Kasongo part of the river &#8212; a stretch that officially is not navigable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Tchopa added that the suspected causes included &#8220;a drunk skipper, travelling at night and overloading.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The skipper is on the run. He had already been banned because of previous violations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PAST CASES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exactly a week earlier, a boat went down on Lake Kivu with some 130 people on board. Dozens are still officially missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incident prompted President Felix Tshisekedi to declare a day of mourning last Friday, and decided to make it mandatory for boat passengers to have lifebuoys.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">River transport is one of the most used in DR Congo with its numerous waterways. Boat mishaps are common, typically caused by overloading of passengers and cargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tolls are often high because there are no life jackets and many Congolese do not know how to swim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-seven people were reported drowned in a boat sinking in September last year, 26 last July, another 50 last May, and 40 people in April whose boats sank while they fled fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s biggest country, the DR Congo is struggling with local conflicts, and in remote areas the control of the central government in Kinshasa is weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered after another boat sinking in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Tuesday, a week after a vessel capsized with nearly 130 people on board. Sixteen survivors were found near the spot where the boat sunk on a river in the country&#8217;s east on April 9, acting governor Papy Omeonga Tchopa of Maniema province&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/04\/23\/37-dead-in-another-boat-sinking-in-dr-congo\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}