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Four other languages, all of them Bantu based, have the status of national language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Francophone country, where, as of 2024, 55.393 million (50.69%) out of 109.276 million people speak French [ 2 ] and 74% report using French as a lingua franca .
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In total, there are over 200 languages spoken in the DRC. French, the official language, is generally the language of instruction in schools. However, English is taught as a compulsory foreign language in secondary schools around the country. It is a required subject in the Faculty of Economics at major universities around the country, and ...
20 December – 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo elect the President, members of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies, and commune councils. 26 December – Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a ...
Duolingo released its 2023 Language Report, which summarizes some of the most prevalent language trends collected from country-aggregated data through Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023. The report ...
The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely varied, reflecting the great diversity and different customs which exist in the country. Congolese culture combines the influence of tradition to the region, but also combines influences from abroad which arrived during the era of colonization and continue to have a strong influence, without destroying the individuality of many ...
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January 4 Martyrs Day: Beginning of independence movement, 1959. [2] January 16 Laurent-Désiré Kabila Assassination 2001 January 17 Patrice Lumumba Assassination 1961 April 6 Kimbangu's Day [3] 2023 May 1 Labour Day: May 17 Liberation Day: Zaire renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1997 [4] June 30 Independence Day: From Belgium, 1960 [5 ...