Popular rumba music can still boom out, but sales of drinks must always cease an hour before closing time, according to authorities, who believe that a “live and let live” attitude has gone too far in Africa’s third-largest metropolis.
The long, loud nights of Kinshasa’s street life are likely to be shortened by the new governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s unruly capital, as part of a city-wide crusade against “dirtiness”.
Customers on the packed terraces of working-class districts such as the Huilerie, Matonge and Bandal will benefit from an extension until midnight at weekends and on public holidays after the rules take effect on August 1. “Sometimes you find somebody having a beer at 10 o’clock in the morning. What state will they be in by midday?” protested Didier Tenge Litho, the provincial minister of the environment.
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