DR Congo Edition
World Freshly Swept Step Day leads today's complete edition for DR Congo.
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A day for the visible care people give to entrances, porches, shopfronts, courtyards, sidewalks, and shared spaces.
In Kinshasa, the repair shop on the avenue is a chaos of bicycle parts and radio innards, but the counter is a calm island. You place your broken watch on it, and the young man behind it picks it up with tweezers, not a word yet. He nods, you nod, and the price is written on a scrap of paper, because in the noise words get lost.
The bar in Limete is packed, and the TV shows two Kinshasa teams fighting for the ball like it's the last fumbwa on the plate. You argue with a guy in an AS Vita shirt about the offside call, even though you both saw the replay. When the match ends, you shake hands and order another round, because the real rivalry is the one you can laugh about.
The bar in Matonge is loud with the sound of the Leopards' last match, and you're arguing with your neighbor about whether the coach made the right substitution. He's adamant, you're sure, and the debate spills onto the street where a crowd gathers. The referee's whistle is forgotten, but the argument goes on until someone buys another round.
You discover the Dinaric lynx, brown bears in the Dinaric mountains, and the Dalmatian pelican along the Adriatic coast. You find that Croatian households most commonly have dogs, cats, and occasionally hunting dogs like pointer breeds.
